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…
How to evaluate your mission trip Short-term missions I’ve been sending people to the mission field for 25 years. This year we (Adventures) sent our 100,000th short-term missionary. Along the way, I’ve made just…
Things learned while circumnavigating the globe Identity issues Wow! What a blog from Julie Lortz. She just returned from the World Race this weekend and didn’t lose any time in processing her experience. Her list shows w…
Learning to be a spiritual father Fathering & Men’s issues I went to a Jason Upton concert over the weekend. He talked a lot about his little boy and sang, “I don’t know how to be a father.” Who does? Once the Lor…