Hope: Do We Still Have It? Should We?
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope … and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest [...]
Service as “Leftist Propaganda”
“I think it’s outrageous. It’s indoctrinating children in a leftist liberal political position.” Gayle Ruzicka, President of Utah’s Eagle Forum commenting about President Obama’s “I Pledge” video encouraging national service. It’s not often that I will tell someone to sit down and shut up, but it’s high time someone did exactly that to Gayle Ruzicka [...]
The Value of Service
As the “Summer of Service” progresses onward, I thought it only appropriate that I take a moment to comment on what volunteerism really means. Being a volunteer is about more than planting a tree, delivering a book, or serving dinner at a homeless shelter. The value of what volunteers do in our communities, in our [...]
ServeCommunity
What is it that defines humanity? All sarcasm aside, humanitarianism! The true nature, or spirit if you will, of humanity is in our capacity to reach out to our fellow humans in a time of need. ServeCommunity is an organization that has recently come about, an organization with the goal of uniting people that want [...]
Sunday Morning Reflections…
It’s Sunday morning here in Utah, and I’m in a bit of a reflective mood so please, loyal reader, bear with me. I look at my community, my state, and the nation as a whole and I can’t help but ask myself where we are going. I try to be a positive person, for the [...]
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