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November 2018

November 29, 2018

First Do No Harm: What Evangelical Missions Needs To Learn From Medicine

First, Do No Harm. It's the principle that's guided the practice of medicine for hundreds...

November 14, 2018

No Place Love Won’t Go

Recently a marketing company offered me free tickets to see First Man, the new movie...

November 08, 2018

The Question Is Not, “Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?” It’s, “Why Do We?”

When I first started doing public speaking engagements, a philosophy professor contacted me and asked...

November 20, 2017

futbol and FIFA boys

“Okay,” I said. “If you show me where they are, I’ll buy you a FIFA...

November 10, 2017

it is WELL

Happy Birthday, WELL!

October 2017

October 23, 2017

suffer the little children

Jesus said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” But instead, we let little...

October 21, 2017

patients kept coming. and patients kept dying.

Just like that, as I stood there watching, the man’s soul left his body. He...

October 18, 2017

“Sista, are you sure you’re strong enough for Africa?”

"Sista, are you sure you're strong enough for Africa?" the woman sitting on the bench...

October 14, 2017

what airports in October teach me about compassion

For years I said that because breast cancer kept me from traveling to Africa, the...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

good and faithful

I am heartbroken this morning. Todd DeKryger, a physician assistant and the medical director of...

January 2016

January 15, 2016

loved

Here's the next blog in the Known, Loved, Wanted, Precious & Free Series! *** The...

November 2015

November 05, 2015

saint sarah: in the middle of the night

"Let There Be Night," I had said to God. And for several more months, there...

October 2015

October 20, 2015

nobody said: notes about culture shock

I spent the weekend with dear friends. This morning, they dropped me off at the airport so...

October 13, 2015

the ground on which we stand

I landed in the U.S. on October 5th. One of the first things I saw...

October 10, 2015

compassion: part II

Felix lives less than two miles from the Compassion center. We climb into the director's...

October 10, 2015

compassion: part I

On my last weekend in Togo, I visited a Compassion International site in Lome, the...

October 07, 2015

welcome home

I imagined it at least a hundred times. When I was sick with malaria, when...

October 04, 2015

the gift of not nailing it

It's my last day in Africa. I'm staying at a little motel right on...

October 02, 2015

the real question

Last week, the doctor who was on-call admitted a 5-month-old little girl. The fever,...

September 2015

September 28, 2015

we have water!

Thanks for praying, sending good thoughts, doing a rain dance....or....whatever else you did over the...

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...

September 18, 2015

to get to you

While I was in the hospital receiving treatment for malaria, the nurses told me the...

September 16, 2015

malarious

Last week I didn't feel awesome. Nothing specific, nothing severe, just not awesome. I attributed...

September 09, 2015

dear ninjas

On my first day in the clinic here, one of the medical assistants came to...