Posts Tagged "Christianity"

When Love Isn’t Enough

Posted by parkejladd on Sep 10, 2010 in Featured {Article}, Slider | 4 comments

Our love either is or is not enough depending on who our love points to and guides others toward. There are a few options Our love can point those receiving it back toward their own selves. Our love can point those receiving it toward us. Our love can point those receiving it toward Love. In regards to the first two options, our love is not enough. Options 1 & 2 will always, eventually...

Killing The Church In India

Posted by parkejladd on Feb 23, 2010 in Featured {Article} | 4 comments

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...

Can’t Buy Her Love

Posted by parkejladd on Feb 16, 2010 in Featured {Article}, Slider | 8 comments

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...

Redefining Success In The Central African Republic: An Interview With Dan Guiles

Posted by parkejladd on Feb 9, 2010 in Featured {Article} | 3 comments

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,...

A Disrupted Church

Posted by parkejladd on Feb 1, 2010 in Featured {Article} | 3 comments

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...