Following Jesus in rejecting empire
After 58 years of making friends I’ve discovered something. Close relationships are fluid, they are seasonal. Friendship is impermanent. Those friends who wrote in your high school yearbook and inscribed above their signature, with all sincerity, “Best Friends Forever” (BFF) were unaware of this. They have moved on. So have you. Or perhaps it’s more…
Embracing Rebuke Martha of Bethany, servant of the Lord Jesus Christ as one who receives the dead back to life. To my brother, Lazarus. Grace and peace to you and to all who meet in your home. My dear brother, not only in the flesh but in the Spirit, it was good of you to…
Here’s an article I wrote for the InterVarsity blogsite.When the World Feels Like a Dumpster Fire — Making It New Again | InterVarsity
Here’s a webinar I conducted for William Carey International University. The article below this webinar, by friend Kristin Jack, is also fabulous. The Unclaimed Promise – Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor (servantsasia.org)
As the Russian Orthodox Patriarch blessed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, I could not help but think of the Crusades (which, by the way, were not just directed at Muslims, but also toward Orthodox Christians). As a young man, St. Francis attempted to join the fourth crusade but turned back due to a recurring malarial fever.…