Jillian Kramer

Jillian Kramer is an author at Religion News Service.

All Stories by Jillian Kramer

GUEST COMMENTARY: To Know and Be Known

By Jillian Kramer — July 18, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Joanne and Sammy Seares and their three children, Gellie, Iren, and Jam-Jam, live at the intersection of a putrid canal full of waste and a double set of railroad tracks in the Balic-Balic slum community in Metro Manila, Philippines. A couple times each hour a train bursts past their […]

GUEST COMMENTARY: Cultivating Compassion, One Child at a Time

By Jillian Kramer — July 11, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) My wife and daughter and I traveled to Ethiopia a few months ago to pick up the latest addition to our family, an infant boy whose mother died in labor and whose father isn’t around to raise him. The child’s name is Bekalu, which means “By His Word” in […]
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