From the Not For Sale site:
On October 8-9, 2009, leading experts confronting human trafficking will gather in Carlsbad, CA to discuss and strategize innovative techniques to address prevention, protection, and prosecution. This unique event will foster collaboration among government leaders, law enforcement, service providers, and nongovernmental organizations while examining topics such as constructing a regional [...]

We are getting excited about the start of our Blessed Be The Peacemaker summer series. Are you coming?! The series starts this Friday, with our friend Jeff Wright discussing a Theology of Nonviolence. Scroll down on this page to read more about Jeff. The conversation will be held at the Hawthorn House in South Park. [...]

Submitted by RJ Palmer.
There is a story behind every homeless face and it is a courtesy you give another to listen.
Being homeless, however, is more than a condition. It is a label which frightens some and arouses contempt in others. And seeming needy in any event is a good way to lose friends, especially with [...]

Written by James Pearson
Inspired by Matthew 23:23
You parse ancient scriptures with mathematical meticulousness; but you neglect to practice the Greatest Commandments, which Jesus said sum up the entire Law and Prophets: Love God with all that you are, and love your neighbor as yourself.
You should have committed yourselves wholly to the latter without neglecting the [...]

I’ve had a lot of time to think about economics lately. How as Christians we have a responsibility to help the least of these. Whether that is orphans in our communities, widows down the street, or the homeless on the margins of society. The questions of how to help the least of these becomes a [...]

There’s some good stuff going on this weekend in San Diego…
Cultivating Food Justice
Food Justice means: Everyone must have access to safe, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food in sufficient quantity and quality to sustain a healthy life with full human dignity.
Hands-on workshops and discussions to empower local communities to build sustainable and affordable food systems that maximize [...]

Through the collective I’ve met some amazing people in the greater San Diego area. I arrived here around 6 months unsure of my future, my relationship with God. I did however have a sincere desire to reconnect with a church that was built out of real relationships regardless of my faults, failures, and personality quarks.
We [...]

Once a week, my little clinic-on-wheels sets up shop at the city’s winter shelter (a giant tent) in downtown San Diego to offer our free health services to the homeless who reside there. Occasionally our primary driver of the forty foot clinic-bus is unavailable, which means the driving responsibility falls on me, the clinic coordinator. [...]

Real possibility or face-saving fantasy?
Is it possible for us as individuals in the USA to maintain lifestyles that are economically just and healthy for ourselves and for the whole world or are we doomed to be over-consumers of the earth’s resources simply because we reside in an over-consuming country? That is a question that has [...]

One morning, about three years ago, while riding down a busy avenue on my bicycle, I crashed. Proud and cocky, I was going way too fast for the situation, and hit a parked car. Amazingly, I got off with minor injuries and had to pay only a few hundred dollars for damage to [...]