Hugh Hollowell

Most of you know I work with the poor and homeless here in Raleigh. Some of you already help me with that in various ways (for which I thank you very much).
On my other site, I created a list of our most urgent needs right now. If you can help me with any of them, [...]

When I moved to Raleigh from Memphis, I had several Memphians who treated me as a traitor for leaving.
I love Memphis. I really do. But I love Raleigh too (even if they do their ribs funny). The attitude, the vibe is different here. There is a feeling of hope here, a feeling of possibility.  It [...]

For those of you who are complaining you have not seen me in a while…
It was pure stream of consciousness, with no retakes (as you can see).

More on this later.

As I wade through my backlog of email, I found out that a letter to the editor I had sent in while I was gone was published. You can read all about it on my other blog.
One of my favorite holiday traditions growing up was watching the Charlie Brown Christmas special. It turns out you [...]

As I have mentioned elsewhere, I attended Operation Homeless Connect last week here in Raleigh.
While all the politicos were applauding that they were doing something for the homeless, I noticed that the homeless seemed almost incidental to the plan. It was as if they were getting left out of the equation. I wrote a letter [...]

OK, my friend Bill asked a legitimate (if somewhat ambitious) question: Practically speaking, what can we do to help the poor and the oppressed in our communities?
This is a question I have given a lot of thought to. In fact, as a follower of Jesus, I think I have to give a lot of [...]

My friend T has a 12 year old daughter, K, whose art class participated this weekend in GroundSpark, which is a small part of Raleigh’s SparkCon. Groundspark was a sidewalk painting contest, where about 100 teams drew sidewalk art for cash and prizes.
The weather was nice and breezy, but being out on the [...]

I uploaded some pictures of Raleigh to my Flickr account. Anyone can view them, but if you have a free yahoo.com account you can sign into Flickr with that and leave comments.
Raleigh Pictures 

I made it into Raleigh about 5am this morning. I am a bit dazed still, but will be back up and going in no time. I should have a new phone number and everything by the end of today, so I will send out emails this weekend.
Hope you are all well, and I should be [...]

Well, I told you last week that this week I would tell you all about the big news I have been talking around for a while now. The big news is…
I am moving to the Raleigh/ Durham area of North Carolina. Yes, that is right; after nearly 14 years of living here in Memphis, [...]