Walk A Mile event in Saginaw, Michigan. Photo by Alex Slitz/The Saginaw News. Love God; love yourself as God loves you; and love others as you love yourself. As a Baptist minister, Ash Wednesday and the Christian season of Lent are unfamiliar things to me. But as I have tried to understand and embrace...

The Invisible Girls #4 (Editor’s Note: This is our fourth excerpt from Sarah Thebarge’s new writing project, The Invisible Girls.) On my next day off I went to the grocery store and got some fruit and vegetables and non-perishables. I also wanted to make them a meal, since the sight of...

The Invisible Girls #3 (Editor’s Note: Part Three of our ongoing series from Sarah Thebarge’s new project, The Invisible Girls.) A few days later, I found myself sitting in my car in my driveway, unsure of whether I should follow through on my crazy plan to show up at their door, unannounced. ...

The Invisible Girls #1 A few months ago, I was riding the MAX train from the Portland suburbs to downtown when I saw a little Somali girl falling asleep while she was standing up.  I reached out my arms to her, and she crawled into my lap and fell asleep.  And that began a relationship with her...

This Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking about food, but not for reasons you might think.  Bear with me, and I’ll explain: Ella’s been having a rough time of it in Math lately.  Actually, she’s been suffering through it for years.  For some reason, the child who tested into honors Math has difficulty...

10. Local Food Banks We’ve experienced two recessions in the 2000s, and the second is the worst Americans have seen in decades.  This has meant that even more people rely on food banks to meet their daily needs as unemployment rises and incomes stagnate and fall.  The USDA’s recent figures...

A Burnside reader, Toby Meuli, produced this video for the Denver Rescue Mission. It’s a good reminder going into the holiday season. Toby can be reached at tobymeuli@gmail.com. First In Line (Black Friday) from Denver Rescue Mission on Vimeo.

This week at Lehigh University, where I work, is Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.  On Thursday many of us in the community will be wearing t-shirts to represent our support in fighting this sad reality within our communities, country, and world.  I wanted to share the story printed on the backs...

I have been waffling over what to do for Lent for several months now, though I have always known I wanted to address global hunger. I spend a fair amount of time reading and hearing about global hunger, and so I wanted to do something significant about it, like really fast,for real, or try to live on...

An article found in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, written by Adam Drewnowski and S.E. Specter and entitled “Poverty and obesity: the role of energy density and energy costs,” reports the following: There is an inverse relation between energy density (MJ/kg) and energy cost ($/MJ),...