How You Can Respond to Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian – over 100 dead and $100B in private insurance claims. One of the worst natural disasters of our lifetimes.
People who lost their homes are asking, “Where...
Author: Seth Barnes
5 Lessons From a Decade Hiking the Camino
I remember the first day I hiked the Camino de Santiago nearly 10 years ago. It was early in May – the air was crisp as we set out on the path.
As we passed a medieval monastery...
How Can Parents Protect Their Children From Pain?
Talia was just two years old when she pulled a pot of hot grits off the stove and burned her hand. She screamed in agony. We rushed to comfort her and put salve on her burns. As...
A World Race Squad 10 Years Later
September 2012, we launched a World Race squad of 60 – the “L squad.” They came from all over America to the Atlanta airport. After training, they flew to Guatemala...
What I Learned By Working With Catholics
I love Alpha, the ministry that introduces people to Jesus without all the trappings of organized religion. They do this with an 10-week Bible study.
Alpha asked me to help lead...
What We’ll Miss About Colin Sullivan
Two months after returning from his World Race, Colin Sullivan and his squad came back to Georgia for a reunion. No one was surprised when he borrowed a motorcycle and rode out...
The Key To a Happy Life as You Get Older
I’m 64 and have an actuarial lifespan of another 19 years. I’ve been studying how to make the best of them. When I look around at my male peers, they aren’t doing...
What Does a Good Men’s Retreat Look Like?
In ten days I’m flying to Italy to lead a men’s retreat for some priests. My question: What should it look like in a post-Covid world?
Men have a lot to process, but...
Making Sense of Schuylar’s Passing
For those who loved Schuylar Barnes, watching her fight cancer was excruciating. She wasn’t just fighting for life. She was fighting for all the years to come that Vander...
Gret Glyer Was a World Changer
When, one day, they make the movie about his life, you’ll perhaps get a sense of its impact. Gret didn’t just have ideas – he made them happen. He didn’t...
How Can I Grow as a Leader?
A student asked me, “What leadership books changed your life?”
I’ve read so many, but I don’t know that any books changed my life.
7 Habits laid such a good...
When I Fasted 42 Days
It was 2006. Andrew Shearman had spoken to the AIM staff retreat the previous year. It had felt like we were on the brink of something special. We had launched the World Race and...
Today the World’s Mess Showed Up in Our Neighborhood
What a crazy world. My son Seth and daughter Estie were driving home and the entire neighborhood was blocked by police cars, ambulances and firetrucks.
“What’s going...
Relief Team Narrowly Avoids Missile in Ukraine
I’ve been part of a team getting aid to refugees and displaced Ukrainians. We try and get food to the east of Ukraine near the fighting. AIM partners with AJM, a ministry...
4 Opportunities Young People Deserve
We Christians wonder why so many young people are leaving the faith and struggling. We point our finger at media and other villains. But perhaps we should look at ourselves first....
Ukrainian Mom Writes Her Daughter’s Name on Her Back
I couldn’t get this photo out of my mind – it speaks of a mother’s love & heartbreak. So I wrote a poem about it.
Writing Her Name On Her Back
The women...
How World Race Partners to Help Ukraine
When Nick Lam went on the World Race, he had no idea how it would change him. Yesterday he drove a van that took a much-needed load of food to Kyiv, Ukraine, part of a network of...
Are you being targeted by evil today?
Many Christians no longer believe that there is a personal evil that is seeking to destroy the works of God and the children of God.
This runs contrary to my experience. I believe...
The Ukraine War is Personal – It’s Time to Respond
The war in Ukraine is personal for me. 22 years ago, my sister and her husband flew to Ukraine to adopt my nephew Trevor. He was a little baby desperate for love and attention and...
What Courage Looks Like
Allina Robe is a World Racer whose life and pursuit of her calling shows us what courage looks like. Three years ago, when she was in Ukraine and saw the situation so many orphans...
What My Dog Has Taught Me
My dog Asha is the best dog ever – she has so many friends. But she is 12 now – what is that 84 in dog years? Though she is healthy, I guess she doesn’t have much...
My poem about my relationship with my father
One of the hardest things I ever had to do was to help my father to die. We were not close for much of my life. Though he loved me, our relationship often felt awkward. Yet,...
How I Learned to Beat Burnout
Today I’m flying to the Dominican Republic, a place where I’ve experienced abundant life as a young man pursuing a dream, and also burnout along the way. Let me share...
Some People Will Die Hiding Their Pearls
Britt Baker is a Millennial who has a burden for the Boomer generation. She was standing in front of a group of us Boomers. She had described a vision she saw where we didn’t...