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- Making Space at Family Camp
- Echoes to Express Foundation’s Values
- LLYC Celebrates 50 Years
- Meet New Echo Valley Director Tom Bowyer
- Foundation Camp Never Sleeps
- Adventures in Education
- Preserving the Lodge’s Heart and Soul
- Spring/Summer 2016 News
- LLYC Campers and Parents Say So
- Recap: Summer 2016
- Song of Myself, 6<br>[A child said, What is the grass?]
- We Strive to Serve You in Every Season of Life
- Cassi Salazar: A Profile in Canyon Leadership
- Where Does LLYC Dig Up Its Great Staff?
- The Great Outdoors Giveaway
- Join the Outdoor School Volunteer Roster!
- What Family Camp Is For
- Blue Hole: Keeping Camp Cool Since 1954
- Rebuilding Retreats at Laity Lodge's Cedar Brake
- #StoneOakSoWhite?
- Adventure for All
- New Bike Trails
- Spring 2017 News
- The Regular World Isn’t Easy
- LAITY LODGE: Material Considerations
- How to Feed a Canyon
- A Half-ton of Inflatable Summer Fun
- San Antonio family finds hope, help at Headwaters
- Mayoral candidates talk gentrification, food deserts at forum
- Annual Cesar Chavez march hopes to unite people and politics
- Blueprint Ministries helps repair people's roofs, psyche
- What Texas can learn from Utah
- Updated: Promise Zone officials await word from HUD
- What are San Antonio's vulnerable communities? City aims to find out
- The poverty film that put San Antonio on the map
- Pastor aims to bridge community resources and needs
- Asked and answered: The poverty question that sparked controversy in the mayor's race
- The Inequality Parade
- How the smallest part of San Antonio's bond takes on housing
- Pinching pennies: barely making it in San Antonio
- New condos and restaurants near AT&T Center?
- Faces of San Antonio: Rev. Michael Jolla
- “We need something to boost us up"
- Ivy Taylor: 'I believe we can create safe, stable mixed-income neighborhoods throughout the city'
- Ron Nirenberg: 'It doesn't matter who you are or what part of town you live in ... you should have a city that works for you'
- The opposite of poverty is not wealth. It's justice
- This week, tell San Antonio how to spend neighborhood dollars
- Why San Antonio has both high employment and high poverty
- Eleven Weeks Hungry: Coach Pop, San Antonio Food Bank Issue Call for Support
- Inequality is complicated. Let’s talk about it.
- Are startups the answer to inequality?
- How Airbnb could hurt affordable housing—and how it could help
- A spiritual home in the spine of the West Side
- Faces of San Antonio: Is poverty trauma?
- Neighborhoods are the focus of new city department
- The future of the West Side rests in small hands
- Students invite public into their stories of inequality
- Builders say affordable developments get housing waiver 'scraps'
- SAY Sí artists are equal to the task of depicting inequality
- Local churches step up to face foster care crisis
- Listening In: How Johnny Williams, AT&T Center janitor, 'toughed it out'
- A changed perspective: San Antonio's more than downtown
- Dignowity Hill residents, homeless centers to discuss vagrancy issues at roundtable
- Dignowity Hill residents show support for homeless services
- East Side residents unite against violence
- Listening In: Dee Dee Sedgwick on the home repair ministry that's fixing roofs and lives
- Filling the void: Southside's only bookstore
- Old-school activism: The story of Jack Elder
- Exploring Ways to Break the Stigma of Mental Health
- Caring for this Place
- Canyon Freedom
- One. Wild. Summer.
- High Ropes Facilitators Keep Campers In Good Hands
- After Camp
- This Treasure, Earthen Vessels
- Helping Pastors Help People With Mental Illness
- March for single-payer healthcare draws 100 downtown
- Listening In: How a trip to the grocery store changed Chris Carrillo’s life
- East Meadows residents talk life after Wheatley Courts
- Why so many San Antonio children spend summer hungry
- Going to where the hunger is
- How and where you can weigh in on $2.7B city budget
- Checking white church privilege
- Mayor Nirenberg announces housing taskforce
- Waiting for the flood
- City Council looks to fund immigrant legal services
- Three Ways to Overcome Inequality
- Can San Antonio get its housing in order?
- What inequality is all about
- Can a community service center save a community?
- New East Meadows report finds a development in search of a community
- Mayor’s housing task force will be open to the public
- Incomes continue to rise, but Texans of color still seeing a gap
- Council passes 'equity' budget, but not without heated discussion
- What Nicaragua taught me about San Antonio
- First open housing task force meeting set
- How the De Novo Foundation helped change one man's life
- Housing task force faces daunting task
- Distressed Communities Index — Spatial Inequality
- The Rise of Residential Segregation by Income
- Overall Economic Segregation Index
- Peace in the barrio
- What is economic segregation, and why does it matter?
- Sinclair San Antonio, Folo Media partner for TV special on S.A.'s inequality crisis
- Why it’s hard to talk about race
- The Asylum Station
- What does affordable housing mean to you?
- Despite financial struggles, Mark's Outing nourishes the community
- Cop offers mentorship at new West Side boxing gym
- Why Americans have no right to an education
- What is your congregation doing for San Antonio's most vulnerable?
- Expert: 85 percent of 1.1 million new San Antonians will be Latino
- Explaining the complex Alazan Courts proposal
- Dressed to empower
- How San Antonio segregated its schools
- Addressing the Opportunity Gap
- Parent University Comes to Camp
- Foundation Campers, Families Affected by Hurricane Harvey
- Winter 2017 News
- Don't Worry. Crew Will Get It.
- The Declarative
- Undeterred
- Hello, Great Outdoors
- With Childlike Wonder
- Is San Antonio ready to take on sugary drinks?
- Should schools do more than teach?
- How San Antonio left Edgewood to fend for itself
- How Texas curtailed traditional welfare without ending poverty
- San Antonio bodies, ZIP code by ZIP code
- Calling all faith communities
- ICYMI: This was all about racism
- Making free speech free
- What's wrong with housing in S.A. — and how to fix it
- Will Wheatley be a missed opportunity for SAISD?
- Nirenberg benches housing incentives policy, for now
- Folo to partner with Texas Tribune on deep-dive reporting projects
- Buying power: When selling is giving in the holiday season
- For school boards short on savvy, corruption comes knocking
- San Antonio’s Muslim-led, free healthcare clinic
- Former gang members nourish the barrio they once harmed
- Reflecting on 2017: What it's been like to report on San Antonio's inequality
- Fighting the urge to segregate San Antonio's schools
- Why this couple chose low-income living
- Am I the reason schools are segregated?
- Will an Obama-era policy move more low-income renters north?
- San Antonio's generosity, ZIP code by ZIP code
- How one artist drew his way out of homelessness
- The two sides of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- When the dust settles on MLK Jr. Drive
- Like San Pedro Creek, these apartments are being renovated — and residents are worried
- SAISD takes another step deeper into charter school waters
- San Antonio is on pace to fill its affordable housing gap ... by 2294
- Lending a hand where it's needed most: Why one couple left Stone Oak for the East Side
- Caught between a car and a slow pace
- All stressed out and nowhere to go
- An announcement from Folo
- New Work in San Antonio
- 2017 Financial Report
- A Call for Your Laity Lodge Photos
- Living Into Our Mission 2017
- LLYC Legend and Family Historian Dan Roloff Retires
- LLYC 2017<br>Year-in-review
- Laity Lodge Renovation
- Outdoor 2017<br>Year-in-review
- We are Working to Change our Little Corner of the World
- LLFC 2017<br>Year-in-Review
- Foundation Camp, 2017
- Property Planning & Stewardship
- Healthy Real County
- Foundation’s Peer-Learning Pilot Marks First Year
- Creativity Brings Us Closer to our Creator
- Echo Valley 2020
- Old School Flour Bluff
- Rebooting Creativity Week
- Summer Images: A poem by John Clare
- Summer Guest Musicians
- How Dwight Lacy Left an Impression
- Foundation Announces Janice Flynn as CFO
- Summer 2018 News
- Soul + Food
- The Pioneer of Texas Outdoor Education
- Lectio Divina 101
- LLYC Summer 2018
- The Importance of Character
- Garven Store on the Original Opening Day
- There’s a Fire on the Mountain
- The Wrench of Grace
- A Foundation for the Future
- Adults-Only Foundation Camp
- A Week in the Life of Outdoor School
- After that Life-Changing Summer
- Artists in Residence
- William Macedo
- Give Boldly & With Joy
- Winter 2018 News Briefs
- Encouraging People to Build Strong Relationships with Each Other and with God
- Living Into Our Mission 2018
- Where the River Turns to Roads
- Laity Lodge Family Camp 2018
- Foundation Camp 2018
- Laity Lodge 2018
- Laity Lodge Youth Camp 2018
- Outdoor School 2018
- What We’re Funding
- How You Can Join Us
- Winter 2019 News Briefs
- I Liked What I Saw
- Somos Familia
- Foundation Receives Land Steward Award
- Out of the Valley and into the Canyon
- Creating a Sense of Calm
- Just for Kids
- Setting the Table for Everyone to Share
- An Outdoor Education Anniversary
- Summer 2019 News Briefs
- The Two Sides of Privilege
- From Pharr to Foundation Camp
- LLYC Outbound 2019
- Fall 2019<br>News Briefs
- The Rewilding of Laity Lodge
- All In
- Let the Retreat Guest Understand
- Happier & Healthier Students
- Cultivate friendships, transform communities
- “It was the joy of generosity”
- Can Churches Help with Mental Health?
- Neighbors Beyond Your Neighborhood
- Family Camp Counselors Get Counseled
- Foundation Completes Kerrville Campus Renovation
- Transformative Justice … and Accordions
- What Birds Are Telling Us About the Environment
- The Climb of Their Lives
- Running Together to Heal Together
- How this Laity Lodge Family Grew and Grew and Grew
- Calling Us to Know Our Neighbors
- Binding Together for a Better Community
- What We Learned When We Asked About Your Community
- Talking to the Living Legend of LLYC
- Sound and Soul at Laity Lodge
- Folo past and present
- How People Are Using Social Media to Help Their Neighbors
- Plugging into the Canyon
- A Lifetime of Laity Lodge
- Cool, Clear Water
- A Place for Neighbors
- We'll Get Through This Together
- If Nothing Had Ever Gone Wrong
- 2019 Annual Report
- Community Coming Together
- Listen: Fighting Pandemic Paralysis
- Thousands of San Antonio Families to Have Cash in Hand
- Driving off the benefits cliff
- In Response to Protests Around the Nation
- H. E. Butt Foundation to Build an Outpost in the Alamo City
- When We Meet Again
- "Tomorrow's A Good Day"
- Introducing Alex Bailey
- Take Up and Read
- How An Epidemic Helped Create Camp
- Choosing Life
- Five Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Poverty
- “We’re Going to be O.K.”
- Answering “Who Is My Neighbor?”
- Community Survey: What We Asked and How You Answered
- Who We Surveyed and Why
- Relationships to Repair the World
- Why We’re Asking Hard Questions
- SA Hope Center
- Restore Education
- Someone Like Mike
- Glenn Echols: Excellence in the Canyon
- How to Retreat When We Can’t Go to Retreats
- Camp Docs Keep Campers Healthy
- The Stars at Night
- Therapy Is a Camp Activity, Too
- The Canyon Comeback
- Returning Carefully to the Canyon
- Building Capacity to Serve San Antonio
- Mental Health Ministers: Not in it Alone
- Listen: Teenagers Let Us Hear Their Pandemic Thoughts
- Rise Recovery
- San Antonio's Roadmap to Justice
- House of Neighborly Service
- The Neighborhood is Her Canvas
- More Outdoors
- The Handiwork of Lavernis Royal at Laity Lodge
- We're Going to Have Camp!
- Winter Storm Uri
- The Answer Everyone Wants to Hear
- H. E. Butt Foundation Supports Kerrville Museum
- Inviting San Antonio to Examine Inequity
- The Bumpy Road to a Prosperous West Side
- Under One Sky
- The Geography of San Antonio's Inequality Crisis
- Meet the Children’s Bereavement Center
- Meet Blueprint<br>Ministries
- Laity Lodge's 60-Year Journey
- The Purpose of Crew
- Where the Big Red Sage Grows Wild
- The Sacred Work of the SA Fatherhood Campaign
- How this Canyon Ops Director Found New Grounds
- A New Team for Real County
- Happy Birthday, Laity Lodge!
- Fathers Matter: A Conversation with Ramon Vasquez
- Meet Good Samaritan
- Meet the Bexar County Health Collaborative
- Meet NAMI San Antonio
- The Canyon's Witnesses
- Someone Like Virginia
- Putting Mission Into Action
- It Has Always Felt Sacred
- The Unstoppable Goodness
- Meet Girls Inc of SA
- Reflections on "fens of cedar"
- Finding Grace in Hupomone
- Unshakable Faith: A Conversation with Dr. Carey Latimore
- Meet JOVEN
- Spaces Created for You & Me
- Why Camp?
- Howard Butt Reflects on Faith and Beauty
- Loving Your Enemies
- Six for San Antonio
- We Gather. We Learn.
- When daylight comes, comes in the light
- Meet Empower House
- Meet SAY Sí
- And The Rocket's Red Glare
- Kerrville Capacity Building Cohort Gathering
- Hit or Miss
- The Other Side of the Fence Line
- A Foot in Two Worlds
- Same As It Ever Was and Always Changing
- New Normal: Camps Commit to Mental Wellness
- Training the Next Generation
- Thoughts on Edwin Markham's "Outwitted"
- The Legacy of Canyon Summers
- Meet San Antonio's Southside
- A Reflection on "Love's Lantern"
- Summer Camp Love
- When the Water Runs Dry
- Did You Know About this Video Series?
- Lead With Your Strengths
- Faith in the Ruins
- Letting Families Be
- Foundation Opens San Antonio Office
- Summer Roundup With Laity Lodge Youth Camp
- She Pastors Strong
- Bridging Our Differences
- Waiting/Wading
- Expansive Mission: A Reflection from Deborah Rogers
- A Reflection on "Auguries of Innocence"
- Old Friends, New Paintings
- Our Faith Convictions
- Invited to Grow
- Repairing To Be Repaired
- Below the Frio
- Third Thursdays Are For The Storytellers
- Wonders Underfoot
- Reflection on "Linnet's Wings"
- Streetz: The King of Second Chances
- People Before Camp
- Welcome to Laity Lodge Youth Camp
- Flourishing in the Third Third of Life
- Stepping Up
- Reflection on "Epistle the Second"
- Building Stronger Families
- Headwaters <br>Turns 10
- Real Friends in Four Corners of San Antonio
- Side By Side
- A Garden in the City
- "I'm Not Going Through This For Me."
- From Outdoor School to Expedition School
- The Universal Prayer
- Inspirational Transformation
- Lulu's Last First Day
- Celebrate Recovery's Unity on the Frio
- Cabin Time Is At The Heart of Camp
- Is this Lady Lodge?
- Coming Home to the Canyon
- Widening Our Circle
- "The Kingdom of God Is Within You”
- A Simple Request
- Know Your Neighbor: Rain or Shine
- Your Favorite Echoes Stories from 2023
- Simplicity, Trust & Childlike Freedom
- Canyon Chronicles
- De Confianza
- Reader Feedback and Letter to the Editor
- Thoughts on “February Twilight”
- Announcing The Congregational Collective
- She Found Her Spirit to Soar
- I Am Unbeatable!
- It's Your House Now
- Communities Need Help. Can Churches Be The Bridge?
- Your Number One Concern: Mental Wellness
- Three Insights from our Community Survey
- We Hear You
- Welcome to the Neighborhood
- Reader Feedback
- Neighbors on the Margins
- What Words Do You Live By?
- A Few Thoughts on the "Prayer of St. Francis"
- A Better Way to Think About Poverty
- America Is Stressed. What Can Camp Do About It?
- It Pays to Trust Families: Escaping the Cycle of Living Month-to-Month
- The Gospel of Wholeness
- A Few Thoughts on "Primer Lesson" by Carl Sandburg
- LLYC Counselors:<br>Where Are They Now?
- Senior Trip to Foundation Camp
- Reader Feedback
- Cell Phone Day Spa
- From the Community
- Bridging the Benefits Cliff
- Too Conservative for the Liberals, Too Liberal for the Conservatives
- Let There Be Light
- Dining Table Revolution
- United for Moore
- Deeply Rooted
- 2024 Camp Trends
- Reader Feedback
- What Do We Mean by Faith?
- Would You Move Your Family To The Kill Zone?
- Build Trust and Navigate Change
- The Biography of God
- Introducing The Echoes Podcast
- Finding Community in a Broken World
- Advice for Parents: Just Hold On
- Teachers Aren’t Therapists, But They Can Still Help
- What My Patients are Facing is Beyond Medical Need
- A Place To Call Home
- Loneliness Is Killing Us
- A Reflection on “God’s World” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Confetti Cannons and Contemplation
- Welcome to The Echoes Podcast!
- Does Your ZIP Code Determine Your Life Expectancy?
- The Cure for Loneliness
- Grace and Grit
- Faith and Justice
- The Land of Raisins and Redemption
- What Teenagers Have Always Needed
- She Lost Her Job and Her Home, But This Family Camp Mom Did Not Give Up
- Lines Between Us at Laity Lodge
- Grace & Grit: An Interview with Three-Time Grammy Winner Ashley Cleveland
- Why AI Can't Make Art
- Celebrating Ten Years of Echoes Magazine
- Stories from the Canyon and Beyond
- Every Texan Should Know What Happened at Edgewood
- The Spiritual Power of Storytelling on Screen
- A Reflection on Alice Cary’s Poem, Nobility
- Repairing What Politics Can't Fix
- How Do We Help our Kids Cope with Crisis?
- In Times of Grief, Don’t Let Doubt Win
- The Food Brought the Kids, The Kids Brought the Parents
- The Weight of the Work
- All Creatures Sing
- Held by Camp: A Letter on Faith, Floods, and Resilience
- Who Belongs in Your Circle?
- Hope You’re Well! No, But Really.
- The Hupomone Challenge
- Moments from the Lodge
- The First Supper
- Foster Care Takes a Village
- This Place Feels Like Home
- Blessing of the Kindling
- Join the Hupomone Challenge
- The Father You Get: Fathers, Faith, and the Loneliness Crisis
- Start Now: Practices for Flourishing in the Third Third
- How To Hope Well
- On Childlike Wonder
- The Stories That Form Us
- When the Whole Town Comes to Camp
- Staying Human in the Age of AI
- Are We All Addicts? The Hidden Attachments Shaping Our Lives
- Elton Trueblood & Questions That Open The Soul
- Listening for What Matters
- Moments From the Lodge
- Moments From the Canyon
- Dinner Conversations That Change You
- Widening the Circle for Young Leaders
- Be Kind, Not Quarrelsome
- A New Issue of Echoes
- What the Church Gets Wrong About Suffering
- Coming Out of Hiding: Shame, the Brain, and the Art of Being Known
- Did You Complete the Challenge?
- What We Can't Stop Thinking About
- Faith, Leadership, and Power in America 250
- From Summer Love to Outdoor School
- Charles Hanson Towne’s Quiet Poem for a Violent Age
- The Work of Wholeness: Navigating Faith and Mental Health
- There’s Nowhere Else Like This for Us
- Moments from the Lodge
- The Father You Get: Fathers, Faith, and the Loneliness Crisis
