For those of you who don’t know me, or my family background, you may not know of our connection to Zimbabwe. I won’t go in to it here, except to say I have many family members still living there, trying their best to live a normal life while the country goes, literally, to hell [...]

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I love watching kids play. One of the groups I shot for on this trip supports an organization that offers play therapy to children affected by the war. The slogan on their t-shirts was “As A Child, It’s My Right To Play.” Amen.
Personally, I’m willing to give up my right to bear [...]

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What does the church have to do, what does it have to become, in order to call people to live lives and establish identities that transcend ethnic, linguistic, tribal, financial, socio-economic fault lines?
What does baptism need to become, to be understood fully and profoundly as a life-altering, path-changing, allegiance-shifting rebirth?
Who does [...]

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I just came across this fascinating photo essay at Time online, and thought it tied in well with the previous post that mentioned the “global disparity.”
It’s a series of photos of families around the world, with a week’s worth of food piled around them, and an average cost (expressed in local currency, and as [...]

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You never know where wisdom will show her head. Sometimes its on the side of a Starbucks cup:
“My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth, I was raised in the west and have a Ph.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit [...]

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