"lumbering our minds with literature..."

"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"

"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House







Sunday, November 6, 2011

Halloween


I hope everyone had a happy Halloween! I can't believe that it is already time to think about Thanksgiving and Christmas.

It felt a little like Halloween at the street church meal today! The protesters across the street from the service had a little boy reading descriptions of hell and bible verses. Creepy. We think they are protesting the fact that we serve food without demanding a declaration of faith first. There were a lot of them today.

Long hair preachers come out every night
Try to tell you what is wrong or right
But when asked 'bout something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet...

You will eat, bye and bye
In that glorious land above the sky
Work and pray, live on hay
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.

-The Preacher and the Slave (a hobo song complaining about churches that demand repentance before handing out meals)

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