No sir, I'd rather not drink that water, but thanks for all of your help.
It has been so long since I have written about Flint. It is remarkable that, being too “busy” to write about what I am doing on the west...
Bearing fruit. Watered with a fire hose
Grand successes can be measured in terms of joy. Happiness should never be trusted as an indicator of divine favor. Wherever happiness is...
Selling the car for gas money: Choices of the absurd
So what words come to your mind when you think about water? Thirst. Wet. Fish. Swimming. Showers. Gas… Did I say gas is connected to...
Can anything good come from Flint? Salvation of the Absurd
Flint will minister to you. You simply need to let it happen. Once, while settling into a Quaker waiting worship, a quote entered my...
Apocalyptic Flint: "Left Behind" as the sin of the church.
“Who's responsibility is this?” a man asked. “Who is responsible for making this right?” It is a fair question regarding Flint, posed to...
Ministered to by Flint
It’s getting hot in Flint, and water distribution goes on as do new opportunities to learn about ourselves and others. We have some...
Flint: Baptized in fire and water (sorta)
Warning: any attempts at humor in this post that offend folks' sensibility or their tendency to glamorize ministry “to the poor” are...
Please, just get us the water...
Location of new water distribution site in Flint. Notice the environmental hazard... Things are getting frustrating in Flint. There is...
Left Stripped and Ashamed
There is a need for a major paradigm shift in the way Americans, and especially the church, views the situation in Flint, the reality of...
Politics of Jesus
One of the most important things I read while in Bible College was John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus. That was more than 12 years...
