This morning I find myself sitting in the Atlanta airport with a medium sized city’s worth of people. One of my former students (shout out to Lonnie!) tweeted me asking what are the best 10-12 books I have read recently. I thought I would comment on that here since 140 characters is useless for that. [...]

Spring has to be one of the most glorious things God ever made. This weekend I rode through western Tennessee with my parents in their Ford Crown Vic, or what their grandchildren call the classic old person’s car. We observed how pretty the countryside was, how nice the yards appeared, and how this seemed to [...]

During my recent visit to Kiev I had a conversation with one of our team named Evan. We talked about strategy in mission trips. When you go to a land for a brief time you want to make the maximum impact possible. But sometimes how we value that impact can be less than precise. For [...]

I had an interesting conversation this week with a young pastor here in Kiev. He told me of a church from America who came to “help” them for a week. This church seemed convinced of the power of puppetry as the key to all things Christian. Rather than helping the church called by God to [...]

From 1950 until now a total of 130 people have tried to climb Mount Annapurna in Nepal. Of those 130, 53 died in the attempt, making it the most dangerous mountain on earth. Mountain climbing is precarious. Climbing in upper altitudes on steep faces requires the ability to drive stakes – called pickets by mountaneers [...]