Lewinsville Presbyterian Church, in Northern Virginia, “adopted” an Afghan family this spring.  The Refugee Resettlement Team’s (RRT) initial work focused on provision of all the basics: food, furniture, dishware, clothing, basic medicines, and more.  While some of the basics work continues, recent efforts now focus on helping the family anchor itself in the community.  And […]

For 55 years I have had the great joy and good fortune to work with community action agencies across the country.  I’ve created some of them, run some, and served on the boards of directors of others.   Although my eye is not unerring, I have a pretty keen sense of what makes such locally-based agencies […]

It was the summer of 1964.  I led, holding the cross high.  I had no plan except to start singing, which we did as soon as we rounded the corner and saw the mob.  It seemed like an apparition:  roughly one hundred people stood in the street, a human arc in front of the house.  […]

The guy was big, very big; probably tipping the scales at 280-300 pounds with sufficient girth to block my view of and access to people, early voters streaming into the Fairfax County Government Center to vote for Virginia’s next governor – either Terry McAuliffe or Glenn Youngkin – and the House of Delegates. He had […]