Thoughts About Isaac

As I write this, Hurricane Isaac batters the gulf coast. Storms in the south aren’t new. I’ve heard of them all my life, but there’s something different about this one. Less than ten months ago we were riding beside those levees, talking to some of the people whose lives and livlihoods are seperated from the […]

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Remember

I’m normally not a museum guy. I think I’m not patient enough to really absorb the information. So today we visited the National Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Smithsonian Museum Of American History. Normally you might not see much commonality in those two places, but I guess my recent bike tour has narrowed my perceptions. […]

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I Can’t Un-Know

On Sunday a small group from our IJM Freedom Tour team visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. The experience of this tour has changed me in one significant way: I now know about the horrors of violent oppression. I’ve heard individual stories from victims of human trafficking, slavery, and forced sexual bondage. I’ve heard the […]

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