Many thanks to those of who took a moment to answer the survey!  I’ve gathered enough feedback (or all I can at the “free” level of...

Deep water wells are being drilled because we need the oil – all of us.  We need oil because we want the cheap food, fortified with...

Dear John – I’m not sure why we think about people more after they die than while they’re alive, but your passing away this weekend at...

Someday I’ll overcome my penchant for self-destructive choices that seem to afflict me from time to time, like eating dessert for lunch...

To make things more exciting, we had our over-confident participants do the ropes course blindfolded.  They’d climb the rope ladder and...

the church on the other side” years ago, which gave voice to some important cultural shifts as “post-modernity” was becoming a common...

As a result, though, I’ve become way less tolerant of normal radio, which forces me to endure tastes other than my own, if only for a...

smores were eaten step by step and we've come this far I’m taking a break from the news, for at least this one moment in time.  Instead...

the bell tolls for thee...in a good way I have a friend who runs a camp outside of Toronto.  It’s one of the largest camps in North...

this began in our family in a dixie cup!! It’s intriguing to me that these two days I’m spending in vision development and long range...

NY Times article from this past weekend that declares Europeans can’t afford their cradle to grave safety net.  Declining birth rates,...

It’s terrible irony that the very thing they fear, ends up happening, precisely because they’re afraid of it happening.  “Fear” it turns...

The marketing strategies of coke, globally, were actually tied to Christian mission work because, as Asa declared, “we can be sure that...

sixty minutes offered a remarkable example of the power of vision.  This is worth watching! Gustavo Dudamel is the new Venezuelan...

The challenge comes in the wake of these moments.  We wonder if there are next steps to take, wonder if what we did was real or...

“Bone Games” right now, about extreme sports and shamanism.  The author had one of those supernatural experiences that climbers sometimes...

This weekend was filled with events that have left me pondering that “being fully present” is actually a lot harder than it appears. I’ve...

“The Divine Commodity” right now, a book about how our consumer culture in the western world has affected church life.  It’s an important...

The Shalom of Creation Yesterday my wife and I drove up the Mt. Baker highway to its very end.  She wearing snow shoes, and I backcountry...

One of God's Best Inventions Psalm 104 is one of my favorite parts of the Bible because it poetically articulates what we enjoy hear in...