By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
At 46 years old, Susan Burton didn’t have a lot going for her. It was 1997. She was fresh out of jail, and not for the first time. On her way out the prison guard said, “I’ll see you back in a little while.” It wasn’t unlikely. Years before, Burton’s 5-year-old son...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A retired corporate nutrition scientist and holder of several food-product patents, Steven Soon-Young Kwon was invited to Afghanistan’s Kabul University in 2003 to give a presentation. Appalled at the widespread malnutrition-related illnesses he saw there and...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Shakeela Hassan, a University of Chicago’s Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology and Critical care has made a life long commitment to promoting peaceful coexistence and understanding among different faith communities. She is active in Chicago’s Islamic...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Vincent Harding, active as a religious and social historian at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, saw around him a growing epidemic of young people who felt hopeless and detached from society. In 1997, at the age of 66, he and his late wife Rosemarie founded the...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 2005, Robert Crowell and Barbara Crowell Roy’s lives changed forever. Their daughter, a 30-year old successful corporate attorney, Eve Crowell, accidentally died from a drug and alcohol overdose. Robert was months away from retiring from his long neurosurgery...
