12.12.2024 – Wounded healers – 2 Comments on An example of God helping process trauma An example of God helping process trauma Almost all of us have experienced trauma of one kind or another. And many of us may never get around to trying to f…
12.10.2024 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment on Trauma Processing Can Begin As Wars End Trauma Processing Can Begin As Wars End The photo above is a shot of the citizens of Syria looking for food or a chance to leave their country as it is b…
12.03.2024 – Dreaming Your Art Needs a Frame: The Power of Structure in Creativity The picture above is of an old church in Sorrento, Italy. Its priest, my friend Rito Maresca, has a dream of a co…
11.27.2024 – Education How We Read Books is Radically Changing I love books and spend much of my life reading, but the way I read books has been undergoing a radical tranformat…
11.25.2024 – Comfort and Pain Do Hard Things The path forward seemed so hard. My dream was to start Adventures.org, but it seemed impossible. Karen was pregna…
Contingency planning on a short-term trip Short-term missions I received an email yesterday asking about contingency planning. In this world of terrorist activity, bird flu worries, and political instability, a good …
Golfing 180 holes in 1 day for 36 orphans Orphans Elijah Bene has been dreaming for years of building an orphanage in his hometown of Beira, Mozambique. 36 orphans need a home and Elijah wants to build th…
Seeker-sensitive pastors grabbing an elephant Church Yesterday I blogged about how those Jesus-followers who have a seeker-sensitive strategy are engaged in a noble, missionary enterprise. Here’s a follow-on th…