Jesus was talking to his disciples and getting annoyed. "Stop looking on the surface of things!" He exclaimed (see John 7:24). He wanted them then jus...
To be human is to suffer pain, it's to feel wounded and to struggle to get to a place of healing. No one is immune and some people have so much pain i...
I've been teaching on the subject "Finding your kingdom dreams" here at the Awakening in Brasov, Romania. The response from the racers has at times be...
I was flying to McAllen, TX for Robert Cantu's funeral. A few hours earlier, upon landing in Atlanta from Bucharest, I'd learned that the funeral was ...
44% of the adults who are left alive in Swaziland have HIV. What do you do with their children when they go? What do you do to console them, to let th...
As a teenager I felt ordinary, but not normal. When I discovered women, I tried to mask my deficiencies the best I could. I procured a strange war...
The first Man Hike this past July was such a great experience that we had high expectations for this second one in the White Mountains of New Hampshir...
If you go back far enough in our Barnes family tree, you'll find a great-great grandmother who brutally squashed a budding romantic relationship. Re...
Yesterday I flew all the way from Bucharest, Romania to McAllen, Texas to be with Robert one last time. His life made my own life so much richer and h...
I've started to beat on this drum more lately (see this blog for example) and here I am today going on this man hike in the wilds of New Hampshire, so...
