FREE – Faith Communities Learning to Help the Enslaved Newsletter

I am a part of a local community group called Freedom and Restoration for Everyone Enslaved (FREE).  Click here to read my monthly update for the Faith Communities group, titled “Faith Communities Learning to Help the Enslaved“.

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Is Legalized Prostitution Safer?

This is the debate going on in the New York Times “Room for Debate“ It is easy to assume that legalizing prostitution, with the regulation that would then go with it, would make it safer for some of the women.  This is the case argued by a few of the participants. Yet I have difficulty [...]

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The Secret Service Scandal and Sex Tourism

The story of the Secret Service advance team, preparing for President Obama’s visit to Colombia, continues to be headline news.  Eleven members have had their security clearance revoked following the allegations that they brought prostitutes into their hotel in Colombia. What is scary is that this sort of thing happens every day in country after [...]

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FREE Faith Communities Newsletter

Freedom and Restoration for Everyone Enslaved is a local community group that seeks to mobilize the community into effective action against human trafficking.  I lead the Faith Communities group.  Follow the link below to read the latest newsletter: FREE Faith Communities April 2012

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Human Trafficking News – Recent Reads

The New Christian Abolition Movement: Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving “the least of these,” as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew, World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to [...]

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Pimps are Criminals who Beat Women…which is not Cool

Back when Emily and I were first married, before she worked at the cyber school, she taught at a Mennonite high school.  Most mornings I would pack her lunch for her, as she left much earlier than I did (I work with college students, why be on campus before 10?).  I often packed a simple [...]

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Just Laws to Protect Trafficking Victims: What the Church Can Do

How you vote in the presidential election does not really matter. I am quite disillusioned with politics.  Too many powerful religious people think it is their job to pledge support to a presidential candidate.  I wonder how Jesus feels when his people are reduced to a voting bloc?  Recently a large group of evangelical Christians [...]

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Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Recently President Obama declared January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month.  It is great that this issue is being taken seriously by those in the halls of power.  Here is the beginning of what Obama said in his speech (and you can read the whole thing at the link): Nearly a century [...]

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The Penn State Scandal and The Injustice We All Ignore

By now the scandal at my alma mater, Penn State University, is well known by everyone in America who does not live under a rock.  It is a horrendous story of the worst kind of abuse, a man using his position and power to abuse children.  Like most others connected to PSU, I have never [...]

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Halloween and Slavery

I first learned about modern-day slavery a couple years ago.  As usual, because I am a dork, it was from reading a bunch   of    books on it.  It is one of those subjects that the more you learn, the more you realize you do not know.  It goes tremendously deep and touches everything.  So [...]

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