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I just heard that there have been floods in the corner of Uganda I visited in January. Livestock, supplies, a school – these have all been destroyed by the waters. In one village, six people have died.
The images of terraced hillsides and burnt earth are still fresh in my mind from that trip, but I [...]
I travelled with my friend to Michigan to attend a conference last week. We arrived on the 4th of July, dropped our jaws at the sheer volume of the fireworks and opened up our notebooks to capture the pearls from a couple of seasoned preachers.
I wrote a lot down. But I think I’ll share [...]
There’s a pattern emerging here. I go to do the monthly breakfast down at the drop in centre and I return with a head full of thoughts about the nature of Christianity and the state of the Church. Yesterday it was the bacon that did it.
A pork-related incident occurred towards the end of the [...]
Picture this: you’re helping serve Sunday breakfast for homeless men and women. There are other Christians there too, drawn from churches around the area. Like the breakfast you’re serving, the team of improvised cooks is an odd affair; a little over cooked in places, perhaps a tad quirkily-presented at times, but together you think you’ll [...]
I’ve just finished writing a manuscript that, among other things, wonders what the next 150 years will look like for Christianity. It seems to me that, like always, there will be good and bad examples of faith in action. But there’s more to come too, I believe. The cocktail of cultural shift, climate change, geopolitical [...]
I don’t know whether it started with death or not, but there’s every chance that it did. Somewhere this year I started thinking about the future, the past and just about everything else in between. This book outlined the science of beating death, and somewhere among the pages there’s a point he makes that [...]
It’s time I got over my aversion to Christians talking excitedly about Bono. The truth is that I worry that we’re getting too sycophantic, that we’re simply outsourcing our activism or that we’re admiring him more for his celebrity than his faith-in-action.
But I just saw this clip. And I felt stirred. [...]
…then surely there’s hope for this world? Read the story here about how he’s still buzzing form his first philanthropic-high.
He’s right. There’s something about giving stuff away that brings out the flavors in life.
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