by John Pitney | Nov 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
How do we make this world worthy of our children? I’m sure we’d all like to know. The way we’re going, more and more potentially great parents are choosing not to bear children because of who we’ve become and what we continue to do to our human neighbors and our...
by John Pitney | Nov 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Several times already we’ve had the privilege of rising early and taking the little guy from his parents at 5:30 am to rock and hold him so Mother can rest and recharge between nursings and Father can catch some zzzzzz’s. At 2 days, I rocked him in the dark, listening...
by John Pitney | Oct 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Our first grandchild was born July 12 and the whole universe blinked. This is the first I’ve blogged about him. Funny, you’d think I’d want to tell the whole world, right? But his story is for his parents first to tell. In a world where nothing, it seems, is truly...
by John Pitney | Sep 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last Thursday I was arrested. Along with 21 other Oregon clergy and faith leaders I received two citations at the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon: 1. “Failure to comply with lawful directions of a federal police officer.” and 2....
by John Pitney | Jul 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
At 11am last Sunday morning, June 24th, 2018, we worshipped at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon. 400, of many origins and faiths came out, organized by Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice of Portland, Oregon and UNIDOS: Bridging Community...
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