by Tom DeWolf | Oct 2, 2011 | Healthy Living, Movies, Reviews
Of all the films Lindi and I have watched regarding healthy diet and food choices, Food Matters is right up there at the top of our list that we recommend to others. The only way you can usually watch it is to purchase it (which we did) or borrow from a friend. Food...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 29, 2011 | Appearances by Tom
We’ve posted a new video on YouTube about presentations I’ve done (and continue to do). This is a brief intro that utilizes photos and video footage from appearances I’ve made over the past several years at colleges, universities, conferences,...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 6, 2011 | Coming to the Table, Trauma and Healing
Ten years ago terror struck New York City. From the ashes of horror was born the STAR program at Eastern Mennonite University. Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience has trained more than 7,000 people from more than 60 countries including Afghanistan, Burundi,...
by Tom DeWolf | Sep 3, 2011 | Gather at the Table, History, Genealogy
Most readers of this blog are familiar with my writing partner and friend Sharon Leslie Morgan. Together we are writing Gather at the Table which will be published by Beacon Press in 2012. One particular area of expertise of Sharon’s is her focus on genealogical...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 25, 2011 | Coming to the Table
Thank you to my Coming to the Table friends Sharon Morgan and Edie Lee Harris for sharing this story. In 1960, a 6-year old African American girl named Ruby Bridges was escorted by federal marshals into an elementary school in New Orleans after integration became the...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 3, 2011 | Appearances by Tom
Part of what kept us centered throughout this beautiful, tumultuous, and sometimes painful journey was that we sometimes had to remind ourselves that our story did not begin in these hard and musty dungeons but that our journey started billions of years ago in the...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 27, 2011 | Movies, Reviews
This wonderful documentary introduces us to five ordinary Russian people. They grew up in the Soviet Union, watched that system collapse during their teenage years, witnessed the extraordinary political changes that resulted, and raised families in post-Soviet Russia....
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 14, 2011 | Coming to the Table
I’ve spoken and written a lot about Coming to the Table over the past five years since I participated in the first weekend gathering of descendants of enslaved and enslaving people in January 2006. Gather at the Table, the book Sharon Morgan and I are writing...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 12, 2011 | Politics
It’s obvious to me now. Chicken Little has taken over Washington, DC. A tiny fowl succeeded in a fiendish coup d’etat in which almost every member of Congress (with the possible exception of Senator Bernie Sanders) and many political pundits have been...
by Tom DeWolf | Jul 8, 2011 | Books, Reviews
More than fifteen years ago I walked from my office to a local elementary school once each week to read with a little first grade boy for half an hour to help increase his reading skills. That little boy is now a bright young man in college. When he found out that I...
