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… Read Post
12.03.2024 – Dreaming – 6 Comments on Your Art Needs a Frame: The Power of Structure in Creativity 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… Read Post
11.27.2024 – Education – 6 Comments on How We Read Books is Radically Changing 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… Read Post
11.25.2024 – Comfort and Pain – 12 Comments on Do Hard Things Do Hard Things The path forward seemed so hard. My dream was to start Adventures.org, but it seemed impossible. Karen was pregna… Read Post
11.20.2024 – A broken world – 3 Comments on Suicide and Not Dying With Regrets Suicide and Not Dying With Regrets When people commit suicide, they inevitably leave the wreckage of unanswered questions as their friends try to un… Read Post
11.14.2024 – Wounded healers, Wrecked – No Comments on Saying Goodbye to Hunter: How To Respond When a Friend Commits Suicide? Saying Goodbye to Hunter: How To Respond When a Friend Commits Suicide? Recently, Hunter Young took his life. Of course it was a devastating shock to those of us who loved him. But all th… Read Post
11.12.2024 – A broken world – 1 Comment on Hunter Young – We Will Miss You Hunter Young – We Will Miss You Hunter Young was a World Racer who took his life a couple of weeks ago. Those of us who knew him are still trying… Read Post
11.07.2024 – Comfort and Pain, Redemption – 6 Comments on How To Start Over How To Start Over Although a lot of voters are in post-election mourning, most of us are at least thrilled to get the election over… Read Post
10.30.2024 – Courage, Fighting your enemy – 3 Comments on Trouble is Normal – Prepare For It! Trouble is Normal – Prepare For It! I have friends who are leading causes scattered around the world, but one thing they have in common. They all see… Read Post
10.24.2024 – Education – No Comments on What Values Do Colleges Look for in Students? What Values Do Colleges Look for in Students? How do you as a young person going to college stack up relative to your peers? The schools I work with are loo… Read Post
10.17.2024 – Listening prayer – 2 Comments on Mother Teresa & How God Speaks To Us Mother Teresa & How God Speaks To Us I’m going to Albania in a couple of weeks, home of that great saint, Mother Teresa. I look to her for inspiration… Read Post
10.10.2024 – A broken world, Refugees & Crisis – No Comments on How Will Your Church Respond to the Hurricanes? How Will Your Church Respond to the Hurricanes? Hurricane Milton left 3 million without power this morning. It spawned a rash of tornadoes in southern Florida. T… Read Post
10.08.2024 – A broken world, Courage – 1 Comment on Preparing for a Monster Storm Preparing for a Monster Storm Hurricane Milton is a scary, monster storm – how do you prepare? Winds yesterday hit 180 mph. Forecasters say it … Read Post
10.03.2024 – A broken world, Refugees & Crisis – 2 Comments on Rescuing Those Trapped by Flooding in Asheville Rescuing Those Trapped by Flooding in Asheville Hurricane Helene has left thousands homeless, trapped behind roads that have been washed out. Although help is… Read Post
10.01.2024 – A broken world, Refugees & Crisis – 3 Comments on Asheville Relief: When Christ-followers Care Asheville Relief: When Christ-followers Care The news from Asheville in the wake of Hurricane Helene, is grim. The town without power, roads washed out,… Read Post
09.29.2024 – A broken world, Refugees & Crisis, Wounded healers – 1 Comment on North Carolina Disaster: “We Need Your Help!” North Carolina Disaster: “We Need Your Help!” Headlines this morning show us that North Carolina was devastated by Hurricane Helene leaving thousands homeless…. Read Post
09.24.2024 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 1 Comment on Leaving the Weight of Our Losses Behind Us Leaving the Weight of Our Losses Behind Us I just got back from my seventh hike of the Camino de Santiago yesterday. One of the highlights for a peregrino (… Read Post
09.12.2024 – Innovation, Kingdom Dreams – 12 Comments on Homeschoolers Living the Dream Homeschoolers Living the Dream Tomorrow I help launch an experiment. The idea is to train a small group of Christ-following leaders to be the chan… Read Post
09.11.2024 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments on How Do I Grieve the Loss of Trust? How Do I Grieve the Loss of Trust? This morning I walked up the steps to our office. Sitting on the porch were two women talking. One I’ve known for… Read Post
09.05.2024 – Courage – 4 Comments on Loving Justice But Lacking Courage Loving Justice But Lacking Courage When the 2010 Haiti earthquake killed over 200,000 people and left so many others homeless, my son moved into act… Read Post
09.03.2024 – Discipling – 6 Comments on My Most Important Lesson: “Go With The Goers” My Most Important Lesson: “Go With The Goers” The most important lesson I’ve learned about following Jesus in the last 30 years is this. You have to go with th… Read Post
08.30.2024 – Better Living – 6 Comments on Deep Water Friends Deep Water Friends We all have acquaintances. But how many real friends do we have? The word “friends” has come on hard times. We… Read Post
08.23.2024 – Wounded healers – 6 Comments on The Gifts of Grief The Gifts of Grief Since I walked my father into the valley of the shadow of death five years ago, I have used poetry as a way to pr… Read Post
08.21.2024 – Courage, Discipling – 6 Comments on The 5 Activations of Jesus The 5 Activations of Jesus A lot of people call themselves Christians and they think that God is most interested in the quality of their bel… Read Post
