I’m sitting here on my weekly day of Sabbath, staring out the window at fir trees laden with wet, dripping life down onto the soil and...

That’s because I live in a different world.  I live in a world where I know more and more people who are coming out of closet; they’re...

As a result, I’ve had time to think, and the convergence zone of some teaching I’m doing for staff at the church I lead, and my reading...

The sad truth is that, even by their own admission, politicians and the machinery that work so hard to get them elected, had no interest...

Mars Hill church community in Seattle may create questions and/or pain for Christ followers in both Seattle and beyond.  But churches...

Failure isn’t really the main problem in this world.  There are remedies for failures, and often clear steps to take so that in the wake...

In two weeks I’ll be home, preparing to meet people in the church I lead who I haven’t seen in nearly three months.  Their priceless gift...

Jesus speaks this bit about people having eyes but not seeing, and having ears but not hearing.  At first glance, he seems to just be...

“we started when we were kids and just never stopped” when are you too old to ride your bike to church? They’re brothers, these two guys...

just to be loved… can it be enough? My previous post offered the first two of five essential values for leaders to nurture and develop if...

Will you still be using your gifts at 83 like Fred Beckey is here? I hope so. My predecessor at the church I lead in Seattle served that...

It’s our last hike, the end of our forty days trekking through the Alps together.  I’ll begin teaching next week and thinking about...

We’re waiting for the cable car that will haul us up to the Douglass Hut, the base from which we’ll be hiking over a couple of passes to...

Less anticipated, though, was the extent to which the aesthetics of Alpine hospitality would so bless us.  Little things, like a welcome...

Today I’ll get on a bus with my wife and travel from Freiberg, Germany to Munich and then a train from there to Schladming, Austria, on...

(I’m happy to introduce the guest author for this post as my hiking partner, best friend, and one week from today, wife of 35 years!...

“Transformation is the result of response to revelation” is something you might hear me  say more than a little bit if you attend the...

Our view of guidance is important, because unless we believe God can still direct our lives, orchestrating encounters, moving us to...

The architecture of churches, in Tirol and Bavaria at least, testify to the union of state and church.  There are statues and frescoes...

“…all we ever wanted, was just to come in from the cold…” Joni Mitchell The bus drops us at “Eng Alm”, a high Alpine grazing area for...