Last Thursday I was in Hatfield, PA helping finish up our latest ETREK course at Biblical Seminary. The group spends time continuing to think about course content and get to know others better over lunch. We were discussing where to go to lunch when one of the students commented … Continue reading
Read MoreTired eyes. Hard floor. Deadlines. Exams. Twenty-one years ago in the midst of finals prior to graduation we experienced one of those joy filled interruptions. Kimberly joined our family twenty-one years ago today. Happy Birthday, Kimberly. … Continue reading
Read MoreYouth ministry today presents a bit of a riddle. Cultural shifts of significant proportions require thinking about transmitting the value of life and faith to youth a challenge. Mark Riddle draws together some thoughts garnered and questions created by a series of conference calls for the ETREK course, “Re-Imagining … Continue reading
Read MoreMichael represents the very best of “confessional” writing. It is posts like this that make the critiques and badgering I read of iMonk to entirely miss the heart of a person. Thanks Michael for your gritty honesty.… Continue reading
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Leaving partisanship out of human tragedy … Darfur in the news again … never should have been out of the news …
Over the past couple of days I have noticed a little more local coverage of the situation in Darfur. We printed t-shirts with www.savedarfur.org on the back. I play basketball with a group of guys who ask who, where, what is Darfur. Glad to see the The Daily Oklahoman … Continue reading
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