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Every Vote Counts – Take Action Today!

Every Vote Counts – Take Action Today!

by | Oct 29, 2024 | ,

Our youngest son loved to play soccer from a very early age. One year, the annual end-of-season potluck dinner featured a sports reporter from a local TV station. Besides congratulating and encouraging the kids, he left them with a message I have never forgotten. He very dramatically talked about Winston Churchill who, when the world was under attack from an evil leader with a demonic set of beliefs, repeated over and over: “Never, never, never, never, never give up.” 

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Values that endure – Fifty years of Connecting Communities and Hope

Values that endure – Fifty years of Connecting Communities and Hope

by | Oct 8, 2024 | ,

This week’s post is about how a small enterprise built on hope and shared commitments can endure and continue to do good. I recently relearned this lesson by attending the 50th anniversary of Neighborhood Housing Services of Baltimore (NHS), an organization where I had the privilege of serving as its first executive director fifty years ago. 

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Leaving the Addiction Switch in the Off Position, the Recovery Choice

Leaving the Addiction Switch in the Off Position, the Recovery Choice

by | Oct 1, 2024 |

I have been in recovery quite literally my entire adult life. The early days were very difficult. I was 21 years old attempting to stay in recovery and avoid all alcohol and other drug use while my peer group was in full experimentation mode. As I developed what is called recovery capital, recovery became easier. Yet, it is important for me to note here for readers that recovery is something I need to pay attention to. I take care of myself to stay in recovery. I am a few weeks shy of 38 years in recovery, I have developed a lot of recovery capital. Yet sustaining recovery still takes effort. 

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Pondering Christian Realism

Pondering Christian Realism

by | Sep 24, 2024 |

A couple of months ago, I listened online to a talk by professor Kevin Carnahan about Christian Realism. It’s a perspective I hadn’t encountered before, at least not in these terms. I thought I would share some of my thoughts about it here in case you might find the connections I’m making helpful.

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Faith and our duties as citizens

Faith and our duties as citizens

by | Sep 17, 2024 |

I’ve been writing recently about how faith and values lead me to certain actions as a voting citizen of the US. This post shares some lessons and observations on this topic and raises some questions to consider. The September 10 Presidential debate made real one more time the difference between an anti-immigrant, fear-based message, and a message of hope and inclusion. There is a lot at stake this election.

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Walking the Earth

Walking the Earth

by | Sep 10, 2024 | ,

We are all walkers.  Sometime during our first year on this earth, we took our first steps.  Now I doubt that anyone of us remembers those first tentative steps on our own two feet.  But I bet our parents remembered them and took pride in watching us teeter along.  It’s what we did when we witnessed our children’s first steps.  Walking defines us as a species.  We are the species that stands up and walks.

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Who you gonna call? Faith and the 2024 Election

Who you gonna call? Faith and the 2024 Election

by | Aug 27, 2024 |

The Spirit is moving in amazing ways in America these days. Watching the Democratic National Convention last week was like attending a summer revival and a national retreat on why living from faith, hope and love lead to joy! I have been away at the beach and was planning to take this week off and share a post a friend wrote that seems so relevant to our national discourse and election. Instead, I was so moved by my experience of the convention that I want to try to express my notions on what follows this amazing show of unity and love.

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About Tom Adams

Tom AdamsTom Adams writes and speaks on topics vital to the intersection of our personal lives with our community and global lives. He has for decades been engaged in and written about nonprofit leadership and transitions, spirituality and spiritual growth, how we each contribute to a more just and equitable world and recovery from addictions and the Twelve Step recovery movement.