Salt & Light
Salt and LightYou are the salt of the earth ... You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid ... so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father…
Karen Hildebrandt: Quiet Hero
Salt and LightThe email stood out on the Klatch last September from the usual notices about football tickets and fundraisers. On the informal Mendoza listserv, someone had forwarded an email from a woman, Rebecca,…
John Weber: The Importance of Being Turtles
Salt and LightJohn Weber, emeritus professor of marketing, knows a useful metaphor when he sees one. One summer his grandchildren presented him with the charter for their newly formed “Turtle Club,” with its three…
Mike Mannor: New Hope for Down Syndrome
Salt and LightThe week or so between learning that his second child might have Down syndrome and the actual prenatal diagnosis was one of the most difficult times in Mike Mannor’s life. He struggled with “massive…
Maggie Neenan-Michel: Born to Run
Salt and LightMaggie Neenan-Michel (MNA ’01)laughs that she and her husband, John had a “pup” pre-nup before they got married. Two dogs max—although she could take in one additional, just for overnight, in an…
Kristin Collett-Schmitt: To Honor Mackenzie
Salt and LightSeven weeks before her identical twin girls were due to be born, Kristen Collett-Schmitt went to her doctor for a routine check-up that turned out to be anything but. One of the babies, Mackenzie,…
Jamie O'Brien: Cultivating Children
Salt and LightJamie O’Brien has never set foot in Honduras. Still, that’s where his heart is—specifically, with Finca del Nino, or Farm of the Child, and the children who reside there. Farm of the Child is on the…
Karen Slaggert: Suffer the Little Children
Salt and LightThe Tapachula prison in southern Mexico is communal—open dormitories where families join incarcerated husbands and fathers if there is nowhere else to go. “These children are in the midst of rapists,…
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Salt and LightWhat time is it? John Gaski, marketing professor and founding member of grassroots Central Time Coalition, has spent the last five years advocating for restoring eastern Indiana to CTS. Sandra…
Patti Reinhardt: Survivor's Tale
Salt and LightIt was Thanksgiving whenPatti Reinhardt’s brother-in-law asked her to feel a lump on his throat. It was the funniest thing, he told her. Sometimes it’s big; sometimes it’s small. Reinhardt’s heart…
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