August 1, 2017
There's an ad that runs on PBS for a river cruise company. It features the company owner, Torstein Hagen in some kind of amazing glass dome as he waxes nostalgically over a roaring fire promoting his cruises. He emotes: "I've learned that time is the only scarce commodity..." In fact, Jim and I went on one of his cruises. It was not one of my better ideas. It doesn't take a genius to know that two people who'd rather work than chat up strangers will not be thrilled with the experience of being (more or less) jailed on a small vessel with 200 of them for a week...
June 19, 2017
As a young kid you could have called me racist. I didn't like white people. I didn't trust white people. I didn't want to be around white people. And I was an angry young man. But when Christ came into my life, my whole world changed…
June 7, 2017
One of the things I've learned over the years is that people stand where they sit. When my husband and Unite Indy co-founder, Jim, (a white, Massachusetts native, transplanted to Indiana many years ago) sat down with Brishon Bond, (a black Indianapolis businessman and member of Black Lives Matter) to go head to head on some commonly used racial terms, there was bound to be some disagreement...
May 27, 2017
The concept of the Good Samaritan is one that is understood the world over. Here was a man who stepped over the divide of belief systems to help someone in need. It is a seminal lesson in how we are to care for each other. The man who was robbed and beaten is unidentified. A priest had walked by and done nothing. A Levite passed on the other side of the road. But the Samaritan took pity on him. Yet, today...
May 16, 2017
Most of us have never talked to a gang member. We probably have never seen a gang member unless he was on the nightly news. But when DeWayne Fincher, former self-professed gangbanger came up to talk, the audience was silent. Dreadlocks falling from his young head, he mesmerized everyone with his story of redemption...
