Taproot Theatre in Seattle is presently running a play about one of my faith heroes, Sophie Scholl.  Along with her brother Hans, these...

Dear Green Lake Before my five year departure from Washington, I walked the frozen shores with the woman who is now my wife and after...

left to right: Martin, Director of Tauernhof, Richard, Charlie, board member of Tauernhof. “Stay a little longer” my friend Martin...

The sad reality, though, is that the testimonies offered that day also served as a grave reminder that courage, servanthood, generosity,...

My predecessor just keep using his gifts day after day for 38 years. The difficult truth that few seem interested in hearing these days...

1. Coffee.  Always first:  Coffee 2. Bible reading while drinking the first cup. 3. Meditation (from the Bible reading) 4. Writing in the...

Plunge your pole, hard, into the place you anticipate placing your foot.  Look carefully.  Step quickly.  Go! They’ve collapsed under my...

The equivalent of 5 jumbo jets worth of women die in labor each day… life time risk of maternal death is 1,000x higher in a poor country...

Here’s a free chapter for all those folks you know in your lives who have walked the road of success for a bit of distance and are both...

“Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all” is how Helen Keller put it.  She’s was onto something, surely.  When Dave...

It’s no news that we live in a world of increasing insanity, where daily headlines serve to remind us that humanity is collectively, like...

You are God’s uniquely handcrafted beautiful creation.  You have gifts to bring to our darkening and weary world, and that means you...

fear of falling is more dangerous than falling I hope you’ve seen the ascendancy of young lives as they move from infant to toddler?  If...

Do you remember eighth grade geometry, and the subject of axioms?  An axiom is “a statement or proposition that is regarded as being...

A letter in the Washington Post This week World Relief bought space in the Washington Post in order to invite President Trump to...

Over 37 years, two stockings have become ten. JOY! It was in the late summer of 1976 when I first made my way north to Seattle,...

still smiling after 37 years of journeying together Thirty seven years is a long time, and yesterday my wife and I were able to celebrate...

I started a little vacation about a week ago.  The plan was to hike a big chunk of the Pacific Crest Trail with my wife of nearly 37...

“Speaking of Jesus”, which is one of my favorite books, precisely because the author has a knack for telling people about Jesus as if...

Mourning at a stadium in San Bernadino Behind the holiday lights, both here in Europe and back home in the USA, the waves of unhappy news...