"Today, more than 5000 bloggers from 130 countries are coming together for a single day of blogging about a single topic: water" Blog Action Day I am one of those bloggers. Here is my skinny contribution. I think it totally rocks that so many people are concerned with getting good water to the world's poor.…
Read MoreJesus and Spirituality in a Post-Christendom World
I arrive in Cape Town on Thursday, a day or so early for Lausanne World Congress. This is because I am speaking on October 15 at an event sponsored by the Anglicans called Touching Heaven, Changing Earth. There are 4 tracks at this conference – Alpha, Healing, Church Planting and Mission. My session is part…
Read MoreLausanne Cometh. Be Ready. Be VERY Ready.
The global mission event of the century is only a week away! Its the Third Lausanne World Congress on World Evangelization also known as Lausanne 3. Its HUGE!. We’re talking 5000 invited delegates from all over the world. Its bigger than Lausanne 1 and even bigger than Lausanne 2. Its bigger than Edinburgh 1910 and…
Read MoreDesmond Tutu on Peace and the Bible
‎Archbishop Desmond Tutu ended his public career this week at 79 years old. Steve Gumaer sent me this quote "There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible. If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible." Archbishop…
Read MoreOur 1987 Brady Lampoon Wagon
Thanks America for our new car. And thanks to Whitney, Sam and Cat who together raised $1180 for our family to get a vacation-furlough vehicle. Its been 5 years since we have been back in USA as a family and we have a lot of people all over the country to thank for their support.…
Read MoreAtlanta. Sunday Oct 10
We are headed to Altanta this weekend and some friends want to host a gathering sometime on Sunday, around 1pm. Backyard. Grill. Family-friendly. Conversation. I guess its the opposite of the Catalyst Conference where some of my friends are. Hey guys can you hang around for an extra day or so?? I will chat a…
Read MoreThe mission of Bandwith.com
One of the most exciting trends I am seeing in USA right now is the growth of missional tech businesses and their innovations in social enterprises and overseas development, which sometimes rival or even surpass current efforts by traditional missions organizations or denominational efforts. Yesterday we drove through Durham, North Carolina, in our Vacation-Ready-Brady-Bunch-Station-Wagon, and…
Read MoreMy Daily Paper is better than my blog
People have commented that my daily paper is a really good read. Its true. And I am just as surprised as anyone else, since the paper is a daily aggregation of my Twitter feeds and I am not really in control of it. For some strange reason, the weird and interesting mix of my twitter…
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