Last Friday at 9:30 in the morning, an Uber driver was shot. As the weekend began, four people were shot in a park in Beech Grove. One is dead. Then on Sunday, in the food court at Greenwood Park Mall around dinner time a 20-year old with 3 guns and more than 100 rounds began…Continue reading Would Have Been a Bloodbath
Read about the 400 reentrants served at a recent job fair, how Jobs for Life training kicked off in Shelby County, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our July 2022 newsletter.
Back in November of ’21 folks on Indy’s east side weren’t getting very much sleep. Pop pop pop, every night. Gunshots cracked the silence, pushing Indianapolis homicides to a record 246 by the end of the year. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett responded, using $150 million in federal American Rescue Plan money to hire more officers,…Continue reading Who’s Next??
It’s a scary time in our country. We’ve cooked up a big old fear cocktail, made with a bottle of violence, a mixer of economic problems and a couple shots of distrust. I was talking with a friend about about all the things people are worried about today, and It reminded me of how afraid…Continue reading Faith or Fear?
Read about how faith can fortify our fight against violence, Unite Indy’s participation at the IDOC’s upcoming job fair, and about other happenings at Unite Indy in our June 2022 newsletter.
You’ve been mentored. I’ve been mentored. First by a parent, then by a teacher, later perhaps by a coach, or someone who actually had the title. Paul mentored Timothy. Jesus mentored the Apostles. Without a mentor at critical times in our lives we are nothing more than a blind man trying to cross a highway…Continue reading The Chrysalis
Take a look at the childhood histories of juveniles in incarceration, and you will find that most have endured trauma that has changed them, given them a different world view, made them less empathetic, more defensive and often blinded them to the basic norms of social behavior. If you’re tough enough to read the ACE…Continue reading Stick with the Dog
Read about how almost 40 people from Shelbyville churches met to learn more about becoming Champions to mentor inmates in area jails, how Park 100 Foods is working with the Drug Diversion Court of Howard County to keep drug offenders out of jail and on their way to wellness, and about other happenings at Unite…Continue reading Newsletter: May 2022
The United States Supreme Court is currently in the process of deciding if a football coach in Washington State was illegally fired from his job. Coach Joe Kennedy, a winning and popular high school coach had a habit of taking a knee on the 50 yard line after a game and saying a silent 10-15…Continue reading The War On Faith: Lulled into Silence
On Easter Sunday Jim and I attended the bed-side funeral service via Zoom of our nephew’s 38-year-old wife. There were 50 or 60 of her closest friends online. She had died on Good Friday, her time of death was called at 3:33 p.m. For the next three days the hospital kept the machines going to…Continue reading Why God?
