Jesus said it, "It's criminal to live cautiously!" (Matt. 25:26) Yet, here in America, we've made a religion out of cautious living, calling it "prude...
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...
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...
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's blog post referenced one young man's cry of pain for having grown up fatherless. But so many of us bear deep pain of one sort or another. ...
I just received a letter from a friend and coworker of mine in a Muslim country in the middle east. "Recently three of our colleagues have been kil...
This month a lot of people showed up in Gainesville to help Karen and I celebrate AIM's 20 years of existence. It was kind of like the best aspects of...
This is a good illustration of how World Race culture evolves [when we were their age, Karen & I actually used to do this stuff too. We took a bus...
We just completed the latest World Race training camp. You can read some of the reviews here. Four years into this thing, it's apparent that we've evo...
We've all got issues. We all struggle to get to a place of freedom in our lives. But here's the paradox: as we share our struggle and weakness with ot...
