Politicians wield power, but the political world is messy. And the temptation to look to it for answers is tempting. For most of my life I've been a n...
Today my son, daughter and parents are all either in or near Cambodia, a country whose fate has intersected that of my family for years (see my last t...
Saying goodbye to my dad was one of the hardest and best things I've ever done. It took a year. He was in horrible pain. He was losing everything ...
Lagos, Nigeria - What comes to mind? "Isn't that where travelers get bags stolen at the airport?" Doesn't the State Dept say: "Reconsider travel...
Who doesn't want intimacy with God? Many people doubt that it's even possible, but not those of us who follow Jesus. He modeled a life of intimacy and...
In the months ahead, coming out of a season laced with virus and death, we so desperately need a pilgrimage. We need a chance to really reset our ...
Life is hard. We enter the world screaming, live 80 years and then spend our last years in some nursing home. To live is to cope with a series of loss...
This morning I was listening the On Being podcast with Ariel Burger, the author of Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom. Burger sha...
In 1995, I felt the Lord saying “Go to Cuba.” I set up a trip through a contact who knew Cuba well. But he hadn't been in touch with me, so ...
For 29 years Castro's communist regime Cuba shut down religion. The worst region was Matanza. But in 1988, a great revival came to a small town call...
