I watched two great, but sad, hunger-related videos on YouTube today. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. That must be true, because these videos are worth a million. They both use a nice mix of slideshow photography and music to move the audience. This first video, entitled “Children”, displays pictures of children […]
Author Archives: Scott Hughes
Ending Hunger Now – The Book
A friend of mine recently directed me to the website for Ending Hunger Now: A Challenge To Persons Of Faith, and recommended the book to me. In the book, George McGovern, Bob Dole, and Donald E. Messer share their conviction that ending hunger is a religious imperative and a human priority. Writing for congregations and […]
The Method To End Hunger
by Scott Hughes Hunger’s a beast of a problem. 15 million children die from it every year. Even in the United States, 14 million children are food insecure. The facts keep going like that. Off the top of my head, I could probably spit out enough facts about hunger to make you cry. I’ve got […]
My Best Dinner Companion
by Jennifer Shukla Several years ago, I was living in New York City for a summer as part of a college internship. I had a roommate there, but we kept very different schedules so I almost never saw her. Every morning on my way to work, I would pass a homeless woman who slept under […]
The National Coalition for the Homeless
The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness. http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
Eurocentrism in U.S. History
I recently received a news story from my friend, D.J Pine, about a push by minority communities for more complete and inclusive American History. Here’s a short excerpt: American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed […]