One day while in Swaziland, we visited a grandmother named Flora who sat alone outside her hut. When we asked her about her family, she said, "Al...
Maybe you saw this news story on Tuesday: American Christian group to end goodwill mission from crime-ridden capital KINGSTON, Jamaica - A U.S. Ch...
I wanted to whine this morning. Karen and I got a bad cold (she in Cape Town, me two days later here in the Yucatan). So we were running a little ...
Just got back from Chad and Erin's wedding. It was beautiful in every way, most particularly because they are both radical Jesus-followers who will...
Here in Chicago where we watched what must have been a hundred fireworks displays in various communities from our hotel window. Karen and I just ret...
You may recall the story (recounted here and here) of Baby Moses. It was so heart-rending. When my son and his team visited her home in Swaziland,...
Are you the kind of person who says, "It's not my fault," or do you take responsibility when things go wrong? Our culture teaches us to duck and dodge...
While she lived in Swaziland, Lisa Black fell in love with the orphan children of Nsoko. She called them "children of the dirt"; they have nothing, ...
In the book Culture Shift, author R. Albert Mohler Jr. diagnoses a number of the things that are breaking down in our culture. Of particular concern i...
I'm sick of reading the news. The drumbeat of negativism is relentless. And the local TV news is the worst. To listen to it, you'd think that we...
