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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 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...
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...
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...
God has given Lindsay Stahl, a World Racer on the squad we're coaching, a wonderful, yet terrible ministry - the ministry of dying with people. It beg...
