I first met Wayne Elsey, at a cocktail party (or whatever the nonprofit/charity equivalent is). Even during that short interview time, his simple activism inspired me: “At the end of the day, I don’t care what you tell me, because your words mean nothing to me. Your actions mean it all. If you want to tell me how much you care about me… you do that by your actions.” And that’s what he does – he shows people all over the world that he cares about them by giving them shoes through Soles4Souls, a 501(c)3 charity he founded to bring quality footwear to poverty-stricken areas.
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The popular match-making site, eHarmony, has decided to settle a lawsuit against them for discrimination and they have agreed to provide a separate site to match same-sex couples. The new site will be called Compatible Partners. The settlement with New Jersey’s Civil Rights Division was the result of a complaint by New Jersey resident Eric [...]
USA Today reports that ads saying, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake,” will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week, sponsored by The American Humanist Association. Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group said, “Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of [...]
Just in case you thought that the Nigerian email scam was a well-known, umm, scam, there is one lady who happens to be both a reverend and a nurse that fell for the promise of winning the Nigerian jackpot. The woman kept sending her money in hopes to gain millions. She stopped only because her [...]
Last weekend my wife, Jenna, and I went to D.C. to visit some friends. One of our friends, Kristy, works for the International Justice Mission. We got to hang out at IJM in the morning, meet lots of incredible people and we stayed for their 11am prayer time. It was amazing to listen to prayer [...]
By Brian OrmeI spent the morning with a pastor and seminary dean from the Central African Republic. His name is Francois. He works with our fellowship’s seminary and trains pastors for the rapidly growing church plants in that area. (I’m a part of the Grace Brethren Church, we have more churches in Africa than in the US.)
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There is a hard to quantify, yet hard to deny reality that the spirit world operates something akin to mathematics at times. Truth works no matter how you approach the equation. X is elusive, yet it is the glory of kings to search it out. And for every positive action or number, there is an [...]
By Randy Bohlender
What if Starbucks marketed like the church?
