Jeannette Wheeler is in Nicaragua and just posted this great blog. We need to identify with the poor . We need to put ourselves in their shoes (if t...
I'm sick of reading the news. The drumbeat of negativism is relentless. And the local TV news is the worst. To listen to it, you'd think that we...
You may recall the story (recounted here and here) of Baby Moses. It was so heart-rending. When my son and his team visited her home in Swaziland,...
Are you the kind of person who says, "It's not my fault," or do you take responsibility when things go wrong? Our culture teaches us to duck and dodge...
While she lived in Swaziland, Lisa Black fell in love with the orphan children of Nsoko. She called them "children of the dirt"; they have nothing, ...
Two new books sound the alarm bells for those of us who believe in the greatness of our young people. The first is provocatively titled The Dumbest ...
Karen and I just returned home from a month of traveling. We're coaching a squad of 32 World Racers for the next year (if you're an empty nest couple ...
Our son Seth, Jr. graduated from college and immediately joined a World Race team traveling around the world for a year. There were lots of reasons wh...
Karen and I have a great relationship, but every now and then, without even knowing why, we'll get a little tired of one another and begin to harbor n...
Ezekiel was a radical who lived and died for Christ in northern Mozambique. Our World Race teams met his widow and I listened to his story from a co...
