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Join us on Monday, March 22 at the Louisville International Convention Center as we call on our school and juvenile justice system to "Plug the School to Prison Pipeline" by including Restorative Justice practices in their options for responses to student misbehavior.

A fact sheet on the issue is available, as is the content of an op-ed (written in part by Joe Phelps) that has been submitted to the Courier Journal.

Tomorrow would be Bobby’s 28th birthday.

It's been almost three years.  Friends sent flowers.  Family members call to check on us.  Jan in Austin is taking Carly out for fish tacos (a Bobby specialty) as a tip of the hat to Showtime Chervil, as he was known in the kitchens where he worked.  Kara and Luch will do the same tomorrow in Jacksonville Beach.

Like most folk in the circles I run in, Haiti has called to our hearts to come to the aid and comfort of the wounded and grieving.  But requests for pastors to rush to the scene with a Bible and a sermon is nil as compared to the urgent need for rescue workers, medical teams, water consultants, and construction workers.  Sending money does little to assuage the Calling Voice, but it seems all we can and should do at this point.