Close to Home
photo by epnichols “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, […]
Arouse the Lion!
Here kitty kitty: If someone happened to startle this sleeping lioness, do you think she would react? I think she would be pretty mad. She would likely take swift action. Let me ask you this- what if she had little lion cubs? Do you think that lioness would “up her response” and wake up the male lion sleeping just yards away? That makes me […]
UNCOMFORTABLE
Way back in fifth grade, I finally generated the courage that it took to ask one special girl to “go with me”. I prepared a small piece of paper with these familiar words: “Will you go with me?” Circle Yes or No That was pretty much it. I had my friends look over the small […]
The Case for Change
I think we can all agree that the orphan system is broken. And, churches are moderately involved at best. If the church can’t help orphans, God help the church. Several years ago, when my wife and I lived in Argentina, we had the opportunity to travel across the country to the Patagonian region of Bariloche. […]
The Hand Off
As they rolled our son down the hallway to surgery at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital (July 2012), we could only stand in silence. It’s hard to talk when you have a lump in your throat and your mind is wandering to a million different places. Last March (2011), we traveled this same road when Judah was 6 1/2 […]
