D likes to help out the community at Peace House Community with a very specific service: he brings cereal (and sometimes other groceries) to our kitchen staff. For whatever reason, cereal has been hard to find through our food rescue partners, and PHC can’t afford to buy it in the quantities we need. D helps […]
For better or worse, Peace House Community keeps setting records for the number of community members we host. Through the end of October, we hosted almost 10% more members this year than we did in 2024. Even more impressive (or depressing, depending on how you look at it), we’re hosting 300% more members than we
The Book of Genesis tells that in the beginning, God brought order out of chaos. We’ve been trying to do the same thing ever since, with varying degrees of success. For the most part, we seem to do okay, creating enough structure for society to function, but not enough to crush everyone. But even accomplishing
I think everyone is familiar with the magic trick where a coin disappears from the magician’s hand and then reappears out of someone’s ear. When we were little, we believed the coin really had disappeared. As we got older, we knew the magician had simply used slight of hand, and they were still holding the
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I recently read The Cross and Lynching Tree by James Cone. Cone was one of the first and most respected Black Liberation Theologians who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the dominant Christian theology denied the experiences of minorities and had nothing to offer marginalized peoples. The Cross and the Lynching Tree was
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In the 1980s, I enjoyed watching WKRP in Cincinnati. The writers did a great job of mixing silly humor with serious topics. In one episode, Mr. and Mrs. Carlson discovered that they were going to have a baby. Being an older couple, they debated whether they were up to the challenges of raising another child.
On July 30, Mayor Jacob Frey sent out a weekly update that claimed, among 0ther things, that “Under Mayor Jacob Frey’s leadership, Minneapolis is seeing meaningful progress in addressing unsheltered homelessness.“ The update went on to tout the lower costs to the City in encampment closures and a reduction in 911 and 311 calls (85% and 87%
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Bennie Benjamin, Horace Ott, and Sol Marcus wrote “Don’t let me Be Misunderstood” in the 1960s, a song with lyrics that are intimate, timeless, and universal all at once. Sung from the point of view of a flawed human, the song expressed the singer’s desire to be good while also asking: Baby, you understand me now?If
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Smiling helps. That’s it. I have nothing more profound than that. I have been reminded lately how important it is to give and receive smiles, so I thought I would remind everyone else. We have one community member at Peace House Community who I mentally associate with smiling. He and I rarely speak to each
One of the worst pieces of advice I ever followed was that I should throw a piece of spaghetti at a wall to test whether it was done. Looking back, I realized the person who told me this was either playing a practical joke or was the victim of someone else’s joke. All that throwing
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