A day in the life
“Today is gone. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.” Dr. Seuss, One Fish, Two Fish …
My daughter’s day ends with Dr. Seuss. Her father is the one reveling in a magical life. The real driving stories for me are those of Jesus. A year and a half ago arrived a pivot [...]

If you would have asked me five years ago what I imagined my family to look like, I would have said we would have four (maybe five) freckle-faced children with blonde hair, blue eyes, and preferably more boys than girls (oh, and they would all have very Irish names too like Finn, Sinead, you get [...]

NOTE: This article was originally posted here.
I sat up the other night and watched the preview for Google Wave. Like many people, I’m looking forward to trying it out. But as I watched, it dawned on me that the biggest attraction is it’s convenience. We love convenience. Convenience can be a good thing. But there [...]

I am at a loss.
I paced back and forth in front of shops on the corner of University and 30th last night. Tears on the edges of my eyes. I have had too many conversations like this over the last month or two. In the receiver of my cell phone, I hear the sober and [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

A couple weeks ago the national news drew our attention to a sleeping giant we are often able to ignore. When the Coal-Ash dam in Tennessee collapsed last week, it destroyed multiple homes, triggered an environmental catastrophe so severe it will take decades to clean up,  and devastated the life and or health of most [...]

3rd Principle: Member Economic Participation
Members contribute equitably to, and democratically control, the capital of their co-operative. At least part of that capital is usually the common property of the co-operative. Members usually receive limited compensation, if any, on capital subscribed as a condition of membership. Members allocate surpluses for any or all of the following [...]