What Are We Witnessing To?

This weekend I was in Pasadena CA at the West Coast Health Care Missions Conference.  Unfortunately I spent most of the weekend feeling miserable with a headache, temperature and nasal congestion.  It is the first time I can ever remember cancelling a workshop because of health.  And I received little sympathy from my medical friends [...]

Teaching at Fuller Seminary

I thought that some of you would be interested in the course that Tom and I will be teaching for Fuller Seminary in Pasadena at the end of June.

Re-imagining Life, Community, and Mission for a Changing Church in a Changing World 
This course will examine how we might re-imagine our lives, communities of faith, and how [...]

What I Have Read This Week

With all the work involved in getting our Lenten guide completed you can imagine that you usual reading discipline has been rather curtailed.  Probably the book that has most held my attention this week is Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson an David Oliver Relin.  This is a must read for anyone interested [...]

A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People’s Lives

Just after I finished the last post I came across this article that I think really exemlifies what I am talking about – this is real kingdom living
There are plenty of charitable foundations and public agencies devoted to helping the world’s poor, many with instantly recognizable names like Unicef or the Gates Foundation.
But private companies [...]

Crystals vs Christ

Here is a great article interviewing Mark Berry on BBC.
Keep up the good work Mark .  We need more missionaries like this.

Effects of Mexico’s Drug War Hits El Paso

I just received this link from a good friend of mine whose husband has run a small ministry called Arrow Outreach in Juarez Mexico for the last 20 years.  Together with local pastors he has done an incredible job building a school, a health clinic, houses and other structures as well as helping to staff [...]

Epiphany

Today marks the last official day of the celebration of Christmas culminating with the Feast Day of Epiphany this evening which celebrates the coming of the wise men.  However this does not mean that our celebrations are over.  We are now entering the season of epiphany which is a season that commemorates the revelation of [...]

OnLine Segregation: The New Form of Discrimination?

In light of the thoughts expressed in my last post I thought that you might appreciate this article from Sojo.net  The New Digital Divide by Andrew Sears of TechMission
As more people get online, they are encountering another type of digital divide: the online segregation of Christians. … You can see a similar segregation reflected in [...]

Help Make the Invisible Visible

Last night Dustin Cross who lives in the basement apartment at the Mustard Seed House came to see me.  He was very agitated because he had just returned from a meeting about the Nickelsville, the camp for homeless people built at 7115 West Marginal Way SW here in Seattle.  This camp is composed mainly of [...]

Health Healing and Wholeness

I don’t usually blog on Sunday but I have so many thoughts swirling in my mind after the medical mission’s conference here in Pasadena that I thought I would commit some of them to the blogoshere.
First the bad news – I was stunned to hear that there are 3 counties in Memphis Tennessee in which [...]