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Posted on 10/05/2011

Rowan McLean, a 7-year-old in a cartoon vampire shirt at Sheridan Elementary, has been going through some pretty tough times lately. Her parents are divorcing. Sometimes she feels lonely at lunch. She gets in trouble occasionally. But on Tuesdays she sees Kristy, and everything’s all right. “I was jumping up and down because I saw her,” McLean says. Kristy’s her officially assigned mentor. They eat lunch together, they play board games like Operation, they talk about tough stuff. It’s sort of like the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, with one difference:...

Posted on 06/05/2011

As Congress moves toward reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the problem is not that the Department of Education is not doing enough but that it suffers from an acute case of what psychologists call “organizational narcissism.” If they really wish to address America’s inner-city public school crisis, federal education officials must look beyond the boundaries of their own agencies and recognize the crucial role of churches. Steven Churchill, of the Center for Organizational Design, explains that organizations can have a grandiose sense...

Posted on 02/01/2011

Something I sometimes hear from my white brothers and sisters when it gets around to Black History Month each year is, “Tony, tell me again ... why we have to have Black History Month? And shouldn’t we have White History Month, too?” That statement is usually followed up by a chuckle in an attempt to take the edge off of what has the potential of turning into an awkward conversation. But I welcome discussions like these because they provide an opportunity to place a subject front and center that often only lurks in the shadows of Christendom. That may sound like a strong ...

Posted on 01/06/2011

Tony Evans, pastor of the mega-church Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, was concerned about Dallas' troubled and violence-plagued public schools. So he found a way his church could help. "Because when you have to put metal detectors into your hallways, you don't want to discuss the separation of church and state," Tony said. "You want help!" Then his church got a desperate cry that launched what became a massive program: Project TurnAround. The program started when gang activity and other disruptive behavior at one Dallas-area high school got the principal so upset, he went to Oak ...