If you’ve followed my blog for any amount of time, then you know that I can’t stand it when churches put stupid phrases and slogans on their street signs.  Many of you don’t like it either.  While we were traveling from New Mexico to Ohio this past weekend, we made a quick pit stop somewhere [...]

“Some people go to Florida for Spring Break, but we go to Ohio.”  This is what Taylor said as we were running from a store to our car in a freezing rain and sleet storm on the first night in my hometown of Van Wert, Ohio.  Potter Spring Break 2010: Northwest Ohio. All eight of [...]

Leadership Network’s Eric Swanson has identified Eight Trends That Will Shape the Future of Global Missions. They are: 1. Mutuality—The future of missions will be shaped by mutuality between East and West, North and South, sending and receiving nations. Churches worldwide are learning to come together. 2. Partnering—Different than mutuality, partnering pertains to projects that [...]

Lent.  The only thing I knew this word to mean for much of my life was the stuff tucked away safely in my belly button.  I had no idea that Lent was something that many Christians around the world observe every year around Easter.  When I got married, I lived in Milwaukee – a city [...]

What’s your town known for?  Mine?  Well, Albuquerque is known for – among other things – its famous stretch of Route 66, having the longest passenger tram in the world, being voted the fittest city in the U.S. in 2007, the famous 1945 quote from Bugs Bunny when he said, “I should have made a [...]

I was working out yesterday, and a rather profound song came up on my iPod.  It’s a song by the now-defunct British band,The World Wide Message Tribe, from the mid 90′s. In light of all the death and destruction in the news recently, it kind of struck a cord with me. I’m not sure what [...]

I love Tony Campolo.  Always have.  I know that there are some Christians who don’t share my love for him, but I love him because he not only preaches the true, radical gospel of Christ.  He lives it.  So, when he speaks, I listen.  Recently, I came across this article he wrote for the Huffington [...]