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Short-term missions (STMs) changed my life. They've played a huge role in helping all five of our children to grow in their faith. Th...
Almost every ancient culture understood that boys, especially, needed help if they were ever to become warriors capable of protecting and leading the ...
When I first met him, he had a different name. Partly as a result of his profound identification with his role as a missionary in the Hispanic world, ...
Just back from Pittsburgh where we watched AIM family members Paul Van Der Werf & Julia Harper break hundreds of hearts by finally tyin...
I'm on a Swaziland kick in this blog like I was in a Cambodia kick in my life in 1980. When a country goes through its death throes, at a minimum, its...
I choose to focus on Swaziland because no nation today is dying faster. What is particularly horrifying is that it dies because Swazi women aren't saf...
One of my best friends in life is Kevin McCarthy, a pastor and counselor in Michigan. He and I were dialoguing about "why people lie." He brought ...
Here's something that's always bothered me. I was raised in a good Bible-believing church, but no one ever helped me grasp the reality of how to fig...
Indulge me for a few paragraphs on the recession: I was trained in economics and business, but am a minister by vocation. It makes for an interestin...
Not all short-term missions (STMs) work. That they have a greater impact on participants than the people they go to help is a given. But beyond th...
