Dear Class of 2012
The weather was kind this year as SUV’s with license plates from New York and Massachusetts started showing up around town, driving slowly with their turn signals on, trying desperately not to look...
View ArticleCrossing the Prison Line
Project TURN is the prison-based education program that grew out of our realization here in Walltown that there are two kinds of people in America—those for whom prison is an unimaginable reality and...
View Article“He Only Had 60 Days Left”: A Call from Solitary Confinement
A big thanks to everyone who’s responded this week to my request for $20 donations toward raising $10K for Project TURN, School for Conversion’s prison-based education program. We’ve not yet reached...
View ArticleGetting What We All Want
In the crisp morning air, day breaks to the sound of a diesel engine idling as the high school kids get on the school bus. It will be back again in an hour and a half to pick up the elementary kids....
View ArticleBearing Crosses and Fighting for Causes
School for Conversion hosts experiential formation experiences in the God Movement because we believe in the constant call to be born again. As Vincent Harding reminded our 21st Century Freedom Ride,...
View ArticleGetting Clear On Who I Work For
Back in the winter, I got a call one morning from a friend who works on the streets in Durham, connecting with homeless folks and exploring ways they might become part of church communities here in...
View ArticleUnless the Lord Builds the House
Four years ago, when I was getting up early in the morning to write a book about stability at our kitchen table, the cracks that run from the lentils of our doors through the plaster to our ceiling...
View ArticleHungry for a Family
As we sit around our tables for Thanksgiving, most of us are thankful for our families. But how would you feel if you didn’t have that support network? Where would you turn? Javier Aguilar Espinoza...
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