Welcome to the journey

After several years of talking about it, I’ve finally decided to start a blog that will reflect on my eclectic interests. I suppose the common thread is that I’m just another pilgrim on a journey through the fascinating time we call life.

I’ve been an activist as an organizer and administrator in the movement for peace and overcoming poverty for 40 years, beginning as a draft resister and antiwar organizer during the Vietnam war. I’ve worked as a community organizer in the rural South, in interfaith coalitions, in the nuclear weapons freeze and Central America solidarity movements of the 1980s, in an ecumenical anti-poverty  network, and for the magazine/organization Sojourners.

My vocation is the intersection of faith and politics. My passions are baseball (Washington Nationals), blues (Buddy Guy and Stevie Ray Vaughan) and bluegrass music (Ralph Stanley), and barbecue. You’ll be reading about all of them.

I’m an Anabaptist/Mennonite, and currently am a member and serve on the worship leadership team of the Community of Christ ecumenical congregation in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

My views on faith and politics have been shaped by (among others), John Howard Yoder, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Oscar Romero. You’ll also be hearing about that.

Welcome to the journey.

Thanks to Dr. Ralph for the song 

Though narrow's the way, 
thank God I can say, 
I’m traveling the highway home

And thanks to my friend Wes, for the lovely photo.