Today was World Toilet Day

Did you know that today was World Toilet Day.  It sounds to most of us as though someone is cracking a joke, but the lack of toilets is no joke for the 2.5 billion people in our world who lack adequate sanitation
The World Toilet Organisation themselves are encouraging website visitors to head over to EndWaterPoverty.org [...]

Junk Food Spirituality – Are We Addicted to the Wrong Practices?

Following my post yesterday Fruit That Will Last, my friend Andy Wade commented
I wonder, what would the difference look like between highly processed fruit and whole foods w/o all the junk? What are the parallels between how our bodies respond to processed foods and how our souls respond?
It was a great question that sent my [...]

How Rich Are You

Here is another great resource that I learned about here in Adelaide.  So often we feel that we do not have enough financial resources for all that we need.  Here is a great site that helps put our incomes into perspective with the rest of the world.
Global Rich List

The Causes of Our Times

I am getting ready to speak at the West Coast Healthcare Missions Conference this next week and have been updating some of my statistics and presentations.  As usual this kind of preparation challenges me again to look at the needs of our world and to grapple with how my life can make a difference in [...]

Feeling Close to God in the Graveyard

Just after I posted my last blog post I came across this very moving article by Christopher Heuertz, director of Word Made Flesh.  Visiting the graveyard is obviously a spiritual practice that has a great deal of significance and provides a deep encounter with God for Chris.
One of the places where I often feel closest [...]

What Is A Spiritual Practice?

A couple of months ago I wrote a post on reimagining our spiritual practices.  I wrote that I feel we really limit our understanding of God and faith when we restrict our spiritual practices to prayer and scripture study.  I also said that for me a spiritual practice is any routine I perform on a [...]

Hunger and Homelessness

The end of another week of Lenten reflections.  Some are still in the Hunger & $2 challenge like Kathy Escobar and her reflections on Hunger.  Others like Tom Grosh are reflecting on Lent in general in You Have A confession to Make.  Others, as is reflected on this comment by Pat Lasusky are focused on [...]

Journey Into the Brokenness of Hunger

We are now moving into the third week of Lent and so my thoughts are turning to our week’s challenge from the MSA Lenten Guide to reflect on and get involved in the brokenness of homelessness.  
Homelessness is a huge and complex challenge throughout our world.  UN Habitat’s 2005 report indicates that over one billion [...]

Hungry Teenagers

This contribution to the Lenten synchroblog is from Tim Mathis in Factoria Washington.  I would heartily recommend the film Affluenza that tim mentions here and for teenagers the World Vision Australia clip Teenage Affluenza is also a great introduction to this issue.  
A few months ago, before signing on for the synchroblog, my interns and [...]

Eating on $2 a day

Yesterday I mentioned that a number of people have commented that they cannot eat nutritious food on $2/person/day especially with kids.  Most of them I suspect have never even tried, some I know have never cooked from scratch before and don’t know what to do.  If you are still struggling with whether or how to [...]