Posts Tagged "Christianity"
Killing The Church In India
If you’re reading this, and you’re thinking about watching the video, I would strongly encourage you to pray before doing so. Regardless of what you believe, it will be unbearably painful. There are no words to describe what has happened and what is happening in Orissa, India. The persecution is heavy, and it is absolutely real. It is absolutely real. The first wave of organized...
Read MoreCan’t Buy Her Love
My wife signs her letters to me, With More Love Than You Can Imagine, Quinn. I wonder sometimes how she loves so deeply. There are no logical explanations for her love; no cognitive reasons to account for her compassion. Outwardly, I have very little of anything of great significance to counteract my reconstructed, disfigured heart. There’s no gleaming band-aid to cover the torn fabric of...
Read MoreRedefining Success In The Central African Republic: An Interview With Dan Guiles
This past weekend I got to interview my good friend and fellow journeyman, Dan Guiles. Fresh off his return from the Central African Republic, we sat down over coffee to discuss the people, the church, and his standard of success for moving forward both here in the States and in Africa. Guiles, 25, is a fourth year medical student at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis,...
Read MoreA Disrupted Church
Forgive me. Forgive me for my feeble attempts to appear strong. For an artistic legacy of painted words and hand sculpted sentences. For a self-concocted life spent ignoring the easily ignorable. For my lack of attention in the midst of constant hurry and waste. For a life spent in willing comfort, separated from those afflicted by misery; cut off from inner city, high rise slums; and...
Read MoreI Don’t Like Christmas (the Holiday Version)
There is a push–a slightly painful, inward nudging of the heart–to do something different with Christmas. The challenge, however, is that we don’t know what different looks, sounds, smells, or feels like. So, instead of attempting change and risking a potentially gift-less, nightmare before Christmas breakdown, we simply do the same things, apply the same rules,...
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