items of interest February 9, 1998 Issue

Watching the world from a spiritual perspective

items of interest

with contributions from ken Garfield, Jared Diamond, George Carey

Emily Lorence of First United Methodist in Belmont [,North Carolina,] spent a sweaty week repairing old folks' roofs in Copley, Ohio.

She traveled nine hours in a church van to get there, sustained along the way by rice cakes, Skittles and youthful jabbering. She slept on an air mattress on the floor of Copley High. She got handly with a harmmer ("I didn't hit my thumb once"). ...

But it isn't just what she and her twin sister, Ashley, learned that Emily wants to talk about. It's what she hopes the rest of us learned from her choosing to climb up on those Ohio roofs.

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