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The rescued becomes the rescuer
By Diane Carman
Denver Post Columnist
Article Last Updated: 07/10/2007 03:02:23 AM MDT
Eunice Kariuki arrived in Colorado last week for a whirlwind schedule of meetings with potential donors.
No, she is not running for president, and unlike Karl Rove and Bill Clinton, she was not invited to the Aspen Ideas Festival, [...]

Most of you know that I’m just coming out of the throes of a crisis of faith (short lived as it was). One of the things I realized during this time was that it wasn’t God I was trying to turn my back on (though it seemed it would be much simpler to do so)–it [...]

Yahoo!’s People of the Web showcased Kirk Cameron last week. His name keeps coming up in my circles. For awhile, I didn’t like the ministry he shares with Ray Comfort, Way of the Master, but I’ve had to rework my thoughts and opinions. I really like Kirk Cameron. I admire his convictions and the courage [...]

Mister Rogers had it right. He understood “what many of us have forgotten in our culture today, namely, the importance of building community in our neighborhood.”
What are you doing to invest into the lives of those in your neighborhood?  How are you building community with believers and initiating ministry with unbelievers?  It’s convicting for me [...]

Sometimes things happen that remind you how imperfect you are. And it stings like a slap in the face. One of these times was last night. The host of our care group confronted us on some ways that we aren’t Christlike at all.
Often, in my circle of friends, one of the ways we show affection [...]

Something about my faith (the noun, not the verb) grows everytime I read new articles from the Burnside Writer’s Collective. This time it’s an article about Hispanic services at church. Jeff wrote the article in response to a friend who remarked that churches with Hispanic services support illegal aliens.
Before I proceed, I want to admit [...]

This year, the Denver Rescue Mission tried something new during the annual Easter celebration–washing feet! There were also doctors on hand to offer foot advice and remove callouses and such. New socks and shoes were distributed. It was a great success.
 Watch the slideshow!

This ministry does incredible work in its community, and it suffered a big loss last night. I woke up to this in my inbox:
Shortly after midnight I received a phone call that jolted me out of bed.  There was a fire at the mission….and my heart raced.  Had anyone been hurt was my first thought [...]

AlterNet has a great article about the “new” movement of progressive evangelicals or “revolutionaries.”
In addition to the quote in the previous post, here are some gems:
[Jim] Wallis agrees. “The religious right is being replaced by Jesus,” he says. “They’re just really digging into Jesus, and what they read in [the Book of] Acts doesn’t correspond [...]

I stumbled across this post while tag surfing on WP. She talks about a game she played with kids in youth group. She had a bag full of random things and had the kids pull them out and say something that related to faith or God. Here are my favorite responses:
A roll of electrical tape [...]