Jesus was in a miserable place. The desert sun scorched his flesh. He had no food to eat. And then, who should he meet there in that vulnerable ...
Most of us have lost a lot in life. As kids we get picked on and we lose our sense of safety. As teenagers, we get acne and lose our clear skin. As ad...
Haunting video above from Doug Pagitt. Springsteen's song captures Haiti's reality. And Doug's radio program did a good job too. Back home now. A...
Aaron Bruner tells the story of an AIM volunteer (we'll call him Steve here) who was in Haiti during the earthquake. He's still traumatized by what ...
The rain began to fall soon after we arrived at Marassa, a tent city on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. We were talking to the community leaders we f...
I was running through the neighborhood. Up ahead was a small boy playing by himself in a driveway. He stared at me intently and as I ran by, he called...
On my recent trip to Haiti, I wrote about a particular orphan girl named Magdala whom I'd met in an orphanage. Later, I asked my son, Seth Jr., who is...
Some of you figure you've been dealt a pretty poor hand in life. Maybe you've got debts piling up, or you've had bad luck in relationships, or you can...
Writing in Sojourners, Troy Jackson declared that it's time to declare a moratorium on short-term mission trips. He makes the following points: A...
Jesus wants more of his followers to see the world's pain, horrible though it may be. This is not a happy thing for most of us. It produces a sense of...
