Last night I had the privilege of attending the Global:Church Forum at Park Community Church in Chicago. Here’s how GCF explains it: “A gathering allowing the western church to hear afresh what God is doing in the Global South and East and find out how ministry is done within the…
What I saw was real. I wish it wasn’t. But there is no escaping the truth now; I’ve seen it and it is forever imprinted on my heart. It’s been four weeks since I returned from India. The travel fog has lifted, and my work life has returned to its…
A theme has been echoing about me in the past month or so. All the repetition has my attention! The message is this: We are a sum total of our past generations—both for good and for ill. It all started with a book club selection, Havah by Tosca Lee. It’s…
Whew! What a start to this fall’s read-a-thon! Here’s what I’ve been doing so far: Read-a-Thon Stats Currently Reading: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, Neil Postman Finished Reading: Creative Prayer, Chris Tiegreen Total Pages Read: 128 Total Reading Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes…
Next weekend I plan to participate in Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-Thon (or what I lovingly refer to as the Reading Madness) from 7:00 a.m. Saturday to 7:00 a.m. Sunday. There are 293 bookworms registered so far who will be reading from across the nation. This isn’t my first Reading Madness rodeo—oh…
Regular life is the backdrop of most of our days. Here we have laughter and disappointment, cooking and cleaning, working and tasking. All common, usual, ordinary. These routine and ordinary moments create a mortar that holds our lives together. Here we get a sense of stability as we do everyday…
Way too often I misunderstand what other people are saying. I would wonder if my hearing was failing, but I’ve always been this way. Although I have no evidence to support it, I think it’s my creative brain’s way of filling in portions of conversations that I missed. (Wishful thinking,…
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