It was Saturday afternoon, I was at the mall shopping with my wife and kids, when I got the message that one of my closest friends appeared to be losing his battle with cancer.  He had just been rushed to the hospital, resuscitated, and finally hooked up to life support machines.  I was warned that…

This past week I finished workshops with another class of Fulton’s Teen Dads program, a question I left asking myself after Thursday’s final class, was what’s next?  To be frank, it’s a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately about a many areas of my life.  But today, during church the speaker presented this question…

This week I went to see President Obama give a speech to a group of about 8,000 students and young people here in Atlanta.  The content of the speech was interesting (about upward class mobility and relieving the student loan debt for the next generation).  But the reason I went was actually because I have…