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…
Imparting spiritual gifts Discipling I wrote this reflection just before leaving Africa: As the sun slides behind the green hills of Manzini and dissolves into an orange glow, Karen and I ar…
Parenting, risk, and the big picture Parenting If our job of passing our faith on to our kids is job #1 as parents, how is it that we wait so long to show them the reality of it? The substance of our fait…
How the church should respond to disaster Radical Living In the days following Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, we had the chance to respond as Jesus would have. 70 AIM interns, so…