Br. Steve | September 27, 2010
James Martin S.J. has a great article in America Magazine’s blog, http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?entry_id=3341 , on the wisdom of Mother Theresa. It appears that UNICEF did a study that discovered that it is better to target the poorest of the poor in the hardest to reach places in the world, something that was always the approach of [...]
Br. Steve | September 27, 2010
I am on vacation this week. It’s hard to believe that I am know at the halfway point o my course down here. I leave in few minutes for the city of Sucre and mater in the week, Potosi. I should be able to post some new updates from both cities.
Br. Steve | September 19, 2010
Hello all. I realize that it has been an incredibly long time since my last post and for that I apologize. For the last two weeks I have been taking classes one on one and the workload has been bigger, but also more beneficial. The increased amount of work that I am doing, plus continuing [...]
Br. Steve | September 4, 2010
America Magazine’s Kevin Clarke has an interesting article about a teleconference recently hosted by Faith in Public Life about the Park 51/Cordoba Initiative that has been causing so much unfounded controversy. The conference brought together religious leaders and national security experts to discuss the controversy. The most interesting perspective was that of national security. Several, [...]
Br. Steve | September 2, 2010
I just came across a short but interesting article on Alternet promoting Benjamin Dangl’s forthcoming book Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America. The title is a reference, I think, to the fact that miners here in Bolivia, and possible elsewhere in Latin America, often set off dynamite during protests. The article [...]
Br. Steve | September 2, 2010
As promised, here are the photos, and one video I promised from my trip to the Chapare last weekend. You can see the first 100 photos here, for the rest, including the majority of the rainforest shots go to my Flickr page (the more photos link in the Flickr box to the left will take [...]
