food crisis

I got an email from my buddy Brad at Catalyst. The Catalyst Vanagon is on a road trip and drove through the Baton Rouge area shortly after Hurricane Gustav ripped right through. Since it was not a hurricane of “Katrina” proportion, the media let it die pretty fast.

i’ll admit. sometimes when tony comments, it makes me mad. he likes pushing buttons.

according to feedburner, there are about 700 more subscribers to this blog than there was when i went to africa back in february with compassion international. so, if you are new, i really encourage you to read about that trip (it’s in reverse chronological order).

los angeles is 1700 miles away from nashville.

this is where people eat.

haiti is 1700 miles from nasvhille.

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174 bloggers got an e-mail from me this month asking them to post about the global food crisis, the Global Food Crisis Fund and Compassion’s Day of Prayer and Fasting (today, June 25th).  They got this e-mail because they took the time to visit CompassionBloggers.com and sign up to receive monthly blog “assignments.” Every month they get an e-mail asking them to blog about a specific C

Unless you've been living in Tent City or under the local overpass, you've almost certainly seen recent news reports about the impact the flooding along the mighty Mississip is having on local communities.

Folks around the world are coming unglued at the cost of food, which has been rising like the mighty Mississip in 1993....

I've never been accused of being too smart, but one thing I know is that when folks get hungry, they're capable of anything. Food has more power than crack, unless of course you're actively smoking said crack.

This has been perhaps the most common sentiment on just about everything good ol Geedub has ever tried to do, so noone should be surprised that his response is "inadequate."