What an Exercise!
At Tuesday evening’s Straight Talk SC: Can’t Win for Losing sponsored by the Riley Institute and the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at Furman University, Dr. Kyle Longest led a powerful discussion about how...
This house is currently on the poverty tour. If you look closely, you will see the letter D spray painted in two different places. This means that the house will be demolished. This is...
Changing the World
John-Paul Flintoff, author of How to Change the World, was interviewed in the March/April 2013 issue of The Optimist. He had been active in world changing organizations such as Greenpeace and Friends of the...
Happy Endings
My husband loves to go to the grocery store. I do not. However, my husband worked it out with the store manager that I can take as many magazines from the shelves as I...
Synchronicity
I am a great believer in the idea that when the time is right for something to happen, things fall into place. For me as a faithful Christian, I believe this meets the ideas...
Charity and Justice
William Sloane Coffin, noted activist minister now deceased, said, “Had I but one wish for all the churches of America today, I think it would be that they come to see the difference between...
Moving Involuntarily
When families must move involuntarily, all kinds of issues happen, especially when compared with families who moved voluntarily in the previous year. Families may be forced to move for a variety of reasons. There...
A compassionate and caring solution for a Tent City
How Do We Deal with a Tent City? People have been living under the Pete Hollis Bridge since it was completed. Providers of services for homeless people knew people were living there and often...