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November 2018

November 26, 2018

Why Christmas Should Be Cancelled This Year

Advent begins this Sunday. Christians around the world will spend four holy weeks preparing our...

July 2018

July 18, 2018

Bloody But Unbowed: What Nelson Mandela Taught Us About Justice, Forgiveness, and Rising Together

One hundred years ago today, a baby boy was born in South Africa. He was...

June 2018

June 20, 2018

Make America Kind Again.

It's World Refugee Day. There are more displaced people today than there have ever been...

May 2018

May 04, 2018

The National Day Of Prayer Is A Waste Of Time (If It Doesn’t Change Us)

In 1952, President Truman instituted a National Day of Prayer. It falls on the first...

April 2018

April 09, 2018

The Gift Of Doubting

Yesterday at church, the New Testament reading was from John 20, where Jesus appears to...

March 2018

March 28, 2018

The World Needs Heroes, Not Celebrities

His name was Arnaud Beltrame. He was 44 years old. He was the first officer...

March 23, 2018

Ashes, Ashes: What Jesus Really Came To Save Us From

On Ash Wednesday this year, I had the opportunity to offer Ashes to Go at...

March 07, 2018

Living In The Middle

Every story has a beginning. Every story has an ending. And every story has a...

January 2018

January 30, 2018

house of mercy

Bethesda means both "House of Mercy" and "House of Shame." When Jesus heals the man...

January 15, 2018

reversing the question

MLK said the difference between the priest and Levite and the Good Samaritan was that...

December 2017

December 24, 2017

curse the darkness or become the light

As followers of Jesus, we aren't called to sit fuming, name-calling, blame assigning, in our...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

waking up on november 9th

I didn't watch the election results last night. Even though I didn't vote for him,...

June 2016

June 30, 2016

so you want to change the world:healing vs. changing

I have spent the past nine months working on my second book, which is about...

June 26, 2016

so you want to change the world: it starts with you

Looking back on my interview at Yale's PA program, I try to remember what I...

May 2016

May 18, 2016

for the love

On Monday night I took a short flight from Kisumu to Nairobi, and then took a...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

when life doesn’t add up

Well, today's the day. I had my taxes done last week, and today's the day...

January 2016

January 22, 2016

free

On Wednesday I was flying from Jackson, Mississippi to Denver, Colorado, for a speaking engagement....

December 2015

December 24, 2015

’twas the day before Christmas

The day before Jesus was born was not a fun day in Bethlehem. The town...

December 23, 2015

keeping the ‘mas’ in ‘christmas’

It's two days before Christmas, and there's lots to do. In many of our lives, there's always...

December 14, 2015

all the 20’s in the whole wide world

My nephew Isaac turns 5 today. When he was 3-years-old, I was babysitting him, and...

December 11, 2015

room in the inn

When I lived in Portland, I had a townhouse with a big kitchen, hardwood floors...

December 04, 2015

hail mary

This coming Sunday I'm going to be speaking at Imago Dei, the church I attended...

December 03, 2015

the place long devastated

Last night I had my favorite kind of conversation -- a good, long, deep, in-person...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

the gift of you

It's the first Monday of Advent. The beginning of the season where we remember the...

November 28, 2015

those who hurt so hard they can’t hope

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't...

November 05, 2015

saint sarah: love alone

I knew that Togo would be hard, but I didn't know it would be that...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

acts of God vs. acts of us

This weekend, I saw lots of people posting "#PrayersForMexico" on social media. I almost had...

October 15, 2015

nothin’

Every morning I was in Africa, I tried to spend at least an hour writing,...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

the very last drop

We're out of water. It's one of the driest "rainy" seasons on record in West...

September 22, 2015

(still)

Yesterday was my first day back at work, post-malaria. When I got malaria, I was in...