The organization in which Barack Obama got his start, the Gamaliel Foundation, is a faith-based group that helps create grassroots change. I talked to Gamaliel's President, Ann Smith.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 11.17.2011
My problem with the service frame is simple: If I serve, someone else is being served. If I serve, I act, but the other -- the beneficiary -- does not. "Service" seems to create two classes: the givers and the receivers.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
When you put the accomplishments of politicians alongside those of community organizers for poor families it isn't even close.
Cynthia Gordy | Posted 05.25.2011