Meta and I will be returning to Bread & Roses on August 1st, 2009. For the full scoop on Bread & Roses, please visit our new website http://breadandrosesolympia.org
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2009/06/bread-roses-revival.html
When I first published On God and Gays (my own freshman level attempt at jumping into a rather contentious debate) in the Canaanite's Call newspaper, I got a pretty severe reaction from a friend...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2008/01/homosexuality-and-christian-tradition.html
There's a new movement afoot among evangelical Christians. Anti-gay? Not really. Pro-war? Certainly not. Brimstone and hellfire? Seem to have moved beyond that... From Revolution in Jesusland : ...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/10/kingdom-calling.html
Why call a social worker when you can *do it yourself* ? For the last several years, first at Bread & Roses and then at Family Support, I've worked here and there on developing an effective, ea...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/09/diy-advocacy.html
I haven't posted in a long time. Heck, I haven't written anything at all in a long time. It's been several months now since I left Bread & Roses. The new job is going well. I'm a half-time homel...
(Note: I recognize that it is ridiculous to offer a blog review on this unnoticed site. Kinda like pasting up large posters advertising fancy cars in a back alley of an unknown town. But I've jus...
There is a little buzz on the Anglican web about Archbishop Orombi's recent article, "What is Anglicanism?" Please read the entire article here . (The following was cross posted as a comment at ...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/07/response-to-what-is-anglicanism.html
Life is dramatically different since we left Bread & Roses. Selena, Meta, and I moved out and rented a little house together on the south end of Olympia. Our back porch borders on Watershed Park...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/06/update-on-home-front.html
When I worked as a professional E.M.T., I attended a number of trainings on how to deal with something called a "mass casualty incident". A mass casualty incident is an incident which, by its def...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/04/leaving-bread-roses.html
His face, swollen and bruised, contorted as his cries echoed down the street. “Will SOMEONE help me? What do I have to do to get someone to help me?! Do I have to beat my head against a wa...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/04/in-gethsemane.html
These words brought a lump to my throat and a deep pride in the Church to my heart. -Phil A Communication to The Episcopal Church from the March 2007 Meeting of the House of Bishops We, the Bis...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/03/house-of-bishops-on-primates-meeting_5042.html
Initially published as "A Few Words from the Editor" in the Canaanite's Call, Vol 1 Issue 5. This issue was specially published for the anniversary of Rachel's death, and contains writing by bo...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/03/remembering-rachel-corrie.html
A young man squints against the camera flash. His long dark hair falls on shoulders hunched beneath an orange jail suit. He looks uneasy…. His uneasiness is not that of an embarrassing moment ...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/path-to-promised-land-tent-city-seeks.html
Submitted by Andrew McLeod and published in Vol 1 No 4 of the Canaanite's Call The Church of the Sojourners is more a community than it is anything that fits most people’s idea of a church. Th...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/living-in-gods-house.html
Submitted by Rachel Winter of the Lane County Catholic Worker: Eugene, OR Halfway through January, Jesse, Caitie and I rented a car and drove up to Olympia, Washington for “Christianity an...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/love-love-love-into-action-action.html
Submitted by David Bellefuille-Rice and published in Vol 1 No 3 of the Canaanite's Call. My wife, two young children, and I live in a poorer neighborhood of a small, prosperous city. Our often p...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/broken-fences.html
(Posted on Olyblog on Feb 7th) The City continued its justifications for turning its back on the poor at the Council meeting last night. Mayor Foutch talked at length about the growth in servi...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/dignity-costs-no-money.html
Dear Mayor, Council, and City Staff: I do not often write to the City on issues of concern to me. I know that you all are very busy people, and besides that I’ve got enough opinions to fill a...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/open-letter-to-olympia-city-council-and.html
Please show them your support! Take food, socks, tents, blankets, etc to the empty lot on State and Columbia.
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/tent-city-springs-up-in-downtown.html
From the Episcopal News Service : > The Anglican Archbishop of Southern Africa, the Most Rev. > Njongonkulu Ndungane, has responded to a recent threat made by some > Afric...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/south-africa-ndungane-calls-for-united.html
From the Episcopal News Service : > Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican > Archbishop of Cape Town, has warned African churches against paying > too�...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/02/archbishop-tutu-likens-gays-treatment.html
Christian anarchism is, in my view, deeply rooted in the kind of pacifism taught in the Sermon on the Mount. The need to dominate, to control, and to force is inherent to human nature, and yet it...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-i-am-anarchist.html
I got off the bus and hitchhiked from Yelm out to the Bald Hills the other day to pick up the car I had left at my parents’ house (I usually drive a '71 Ford Country Squire that I inherited fro...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2006/12/anarchy-for-common-person.html
People often come by the Bread & Roses house with food donations. As they drop their beautiful gifts into my hands, they frequently thank me for my “hard work feeding all the hungry people.”...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2006/12/holy-eucharist-catholic-worker-style.html
The sidewalk ordinance passed. Albeit with some alterations... Beginning in February, it will be illegal to sit, lie down, or panhandle within 6 feet of the edge of a building downtown. This law...
http://canaanitescall.blogspot.com/2006/11/time-to-dig-trenches.html