Richard Cizik

Richard Cizik

On a cold December morning in 2008, I sat down with NPR’ s Terri Gross for an interview. My sense of purpose had evolved dramatically over the 25 years leading up to that interview: I had advised President Ronald Reagan on his “Evil Empire” speech,...
Murelle Harrison

Murelle Harrison

I was reared on a farm in a poor, rural area, but my parents taught me and my seven siblings that family, hard work, education and belief in God were the stepping stones out of poverty. It worked for us, and I believe it will work in Gardere. The Gardere Initiative...
Young Lee Hertig

Young Lee Hertig

As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. has said, the most segregated hour in America is 11:00 on Sunday mornings. In 1981, as a first year Asian American seminarian, I was faced with a Eurocentric curriculum that excluded non-white perspectives. That launched my campaign to...