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The Silent Crisis | Cheryl Morden
Hunger is sometimes called the silent crisis. Silent crises are the ones that are overlooked, crowded off the front pages by late-breaking news. Years of experience tell us that when hungry people are silent, they go unnoticed by the rest of the world. Apparently, to become a real and present crisis, those of us with ...
Fasting in Solidarity | Leland Fellows
Below are short reflections from a few of the current class of Congressional Hunger Center’s Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows Program who are participating the fast as part of their commitment to become leader in the fight against hunger worldwide. I think a little bit of solidarity is in order. Back in the heyday of ...
Understanding Hunger | Elyssa Koidin
Even though I have worked closely on the issues of poverty and hunger for the past eight years, I have been blessed to never have had to know these struggles personally. I understand the impact of policy on programs. But the reality of how the programs impact people’s lives is rather foreign to me. Starting ...
America’s National Humiliation | Tony Hall
Almost three weeks ago I stopped eating and started fasting, calling people of faith and conscience to do the same. At the height of the Civil War in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling the nation to a day of fasting, prayer and what he called, “national humiliation”. Taking his clues from the ...
We Pay For Hunger | Ed Nicholson
I did not eat last Wednesday, along with thousands of others who care about hungry people in our country and around the world. It’s all part of the campaign HungerFast.org, in which the nation’s most prominent anti-hunger/ anti-poverty organizations (including some of our partners- Share Our Strength, Feeding America, FRAC, and The Congressional Hunger Center) are encouraging their ...
An Assault Against the Very People God Instructs Us to Protect | Dave Miner
I did not eat, at all, last week. Right now our nation is in the middle of important discussions about how to cut its deficits. Living within our means is something we must do, and how we do it is a very important moral decision. The initial proposal passed recently by the House of Representatives ...
Lenten Disciplines & Budget Choices | Wes Granberg-Michaelson
In the tradition of the church, the season of Lent was observed through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These forty days were a period when one’s life was more deeply centered in God, when one’s desires were restrained, and when one’s compassion for the poor was deepened. Reviving those ancient practices within today’s context makes spiritual ...
Forcing Myself to “Get It” | Meredith Dodson
It’s 6:10 am when I open my eyes. I decided to let myself “sleep in” during RESULTS’ day of observing the Hunger Fast with one of our longtime allies and someone I find tremendously inspirational: former member of Congress and Ambassador Tony Hall. Seemed like a good idea to skip my usual up-at-5:40-am-to-exercise routine and get ...
The Magnitude of the Challenge Doesn’t Give Us the Privilege to Do Nothing | Rabbi Steve Gutow
Doing something with Tony Hall is always spiritually uplifting for me – he is such a wonderful soul. So when he suggested some kind of ‘fast’ to accentuate the concern many of us have about the tragic reductions in dollars allocated to legislation to alleviate hunger in America, I stepped up speedily. I have done ...
A Few Hours of Debt Relief or Millions of Lives? | Kevin Anderson
Last week, Kevin Anderson fasted for several days. He shares his experiences below. I haven’t eaten anything since Tuesday night and I’m not planning to eat until Friday. I’m joining Ambassador Tony Hall, New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, nine Members of Congress and more than 36,000 Americans in a fast to draw attention to proposed budget cuts ...
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