By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Alicia Cuaron was a successful corporate executive and prominent Latina leader. Then, after a series of personal crises that profoundly impacted her life, she resigned from the company she founded and became a Franciscan nun. Cuaron was assigned to a Catholic parish...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Bettie J. Williams-Watson was married to a preacher who could “quote the Bible from front to back.” Yet at home, she says, he was abusive, both physically and emotionally. Believing her children were in danger, she took them and left. A few years later, after...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Bruce Lindstrom knows the statistics – and fallout – well. More than 85 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) middle and high school youths report being verbally harassed, and nearly 45 percent report being physically harassed at school because of...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
When Dave Hughes joined Agape House as its executive director in 2002, the small nonprofit was disorganized and underfunded. He brought a fresh vision that turned the organization into a leader in the community. Before joining Agape House, based in Hermiston, Ore.,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Christine Reams, a longtime social worker in St. Louis, worried about the children. It was 1991, and Reams, then in her 50s and a new employee at Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri (LFCS), listened as parents in crisis came in to ask for the one-time...
