Larry James' Urban Daily

Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the powerful Senate Agriculture Committee, admitted in an interview with CNN today that America do...

Frustrated as you consider the problems and challenges associated with homelessness in the United States? Need even just a glimmer of hope? ...

It always happens. No matter where I am, it happens. It has been happening for as long as I can remember. For years and years now. I've ...

LeAnn Rimes brought down the house Monday night during our sixth annual "A Night to Remember 2007" concert at the Morton H. Meyer...

Imagine my surprise at a television news report last Saturday night picturing the beginning of the Christmas season, and just as fall arrive...

Often when I meet with groups who express an interest in either helping us do our work or in developing their own strategies for responding ...

"The Church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be ...

Years ago a wise person impressed upon me the truth that funding follows people and ideas. Relationships and clear thinking often combine to...

Thank you to our neighbors in Deep Ellum for naming CDM the beneficiary of this event. I hope to see you all at the show! A Taste of Deep El...

Last April, our staff conducted a survey of persons who came to our Haskell Avenue Resource seeking some sort of assistance, referral or int...

Today will be spent at The Heart Hospital--Baylor, Plano . My 87-year-old father will undergo carotid artery surgery early this morning. The...

"San Francisco to Offer Care For Every Uninsured Adult" That was the eye-catching headline of Kevin Sack's report printed in t...

The weekend has been a bit unusual. It's also been frightening at times. It all began Saturday morning. I'd been out for a haircut a...

I live in a great, old, two-story frame house built in 1922. It sits on sort of a "boundary" block between the Munger Place Histo...

Disconnected diary ramblings at the end of a difficult week with a view to recent revelations of the "darkness" surrounding the i...

[ Readers, you've got to take in the following story that I found on The Pioneer Woman blog. Sometimes the issues we face as we make ...

It has been awhile since I read a book more fascinating than Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbab...

What we are up to here in inner city Dallas is the pursuit of a “Black Swan,” to use the term made famous by Nassim Nicholas Taleb , author...

Two weeks from tonight, Central Dallas Ministries brings the 2007 edition of "A Night to Remember" to our city! Monday, September...

"The Book of Isaiah is strong stuff for these post-revolutionary days. It is only left in hotel rooms because nobody bothers to read it...

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and mat...

Whenever anyone begins seriously considering health care reform, a national health care system or universal health insurance coverage, criti...

Poverty cannot be effectively challenged without collective action of one kind or another. This in one of the obvious reasons why some sort ...

Okay, I'll be the first to admit the obvious: we spend a good bit of time here talking about, studying, debating poverty and the various...

There is a scene toward the end of the classic 1947 film, The Bishop's Wife, that really got to me last week when I watched it again. Th...

Across America Labor Day means. . . . . .for most a holiday for working people, including students. . . .for some a time to celebrate the Am...

I'm not much on linking to devotional material, but this one is worth watching--the photography is wonderful: http://www.theinterviewwit...

Speaking of vacations, renewal and the benefits, luxuries and privileges of the middle class. . . For years, when our girls were young, we ...

The tears flowed freely here last week. On Tuesday morning, we learned that our dear friend, Rosalind Sanders had died at home following a m...

Last Monday, the day we "enjoyed" one of the largest crowds of people seeking assistance in our history as an organization, I witn...