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…
Asking God the right question Spiritual Formation I was hiking up Mt. Mitchell last weekend and the thought came to me, “One reason so many people are stuck spiritually is that they’re asking an important q…
Actions vs. Belief Spiritual Formation “Do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.” (Matt. 23:3) In America, when we say something, it can sometimes feel like we’ve don…
Placing a priority on your friends My Life Karen and I are back from Orlando. Over the last 20 years, we’ve watched Daniel Watson go from toddler, to little boy, to adolescent, to grown man. So it wa…