Category: justice

• out of the lifeboat: liberian adoption (pt 2)

  Part one of this interview with Alby Zander can be found here. Could you tell us about the logistics that needed to take place before you actually went to Liberia to meet your new children? A lot of paperwork!!!! Probably the hardest part in the whole process is dealing with the frustration of all the…

  David Swanson

  August 8, 2007

  church, justice, stories

• out of the lifeboat: liberian adoption (pt 1)

  Over the past couple of weeks I conducted an email interview with Alby Zander about their recent experience adopting two boys from Liberia. Alby has been married to Lori for 12 years, at Parkview for 9 years, and have 5 great kids- Zach 8, Matti 7, Leeya 5, Samson 4, Benji 2). Lorri mostly grew…

  David Swanson

  August 6, 2007

  church, justice, stories

• compassion fatigue at the coffee shop

  Bob has written a thoughtful post over at rednoW about compassion fatigue. Back to this morning. What I didn’t tell you is that the dialogue between the two employees began as a small conversation about the homeless “in general” as well as a group of homeless that shows up to the coffee house on Sundays.…

  David Swanson

  July 18, 2007

  justice

• human trafficking in detroit

  Maggie sent me a link to a press release from the Department of Justice about the recent conviction of a Detroit man on charges of enslaving women as exotic dancers. This is hard stuff to read, but is illuminating to how and why human trafficking happens in our country. To force the women to keep…

  David Swanson

  July 16, 2007

  justice

• live earth and (product) red

  I posted this elsewhere this weekend, but thought I’d put it here as well… On July 7, Live Earth will broadcast The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis from all 7 continents. Get it? 7/7/07 on 7 continents. So if you’re in New York, you could see Kanye West and Fall Out Boy among others.…

  David Swanson

  June 25, 2007

  justice, music