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Dear Church, Let’s, Everyday, Just. Start. Here.:
In the heat of Uganda this past July, my heart burned hard, and I wrote a letter, a post, I keep returning to, igniting with, a post that sort of went crazy, A Letter to the North American Church....
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Dear Church: The Real Truth About Family Values
In the heat of Uganda this past July, I wrote a letter, a post, I keep returning to, igniting with, a post that’s gone far and wide and sort of went crazy, A Letter to the North American Church. That’s...
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What’s Missing from the North American Church?
In the heat of Uganda this past July, I wrote a letter, a post, I keep returning to, igniting with, a post that’s gone far and wide and sort of went crazy, A Letter to the North American Church. That’s...
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Dear Church: Why It’s Okay to Really Need Each Other
In the heat of Uganda this past July, I wrote a letter, a post, I keep returning to, igniting with, a post that’s gone far and wide and sort of went crazy, A Letter to the North American Church. That’s...
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Half the Sky: When You’re Ready to ACT to Bring All Girls Back: The Esther...
So the guy with white hair spoke under half the sky, spoke under a flinging of stars. Spoke like he was made up of some star-dust from the Star-breather, some cosmic flame burning up his bones. Like he...
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How You Can Do One Small Thing Today To Make one BIG Difference:...
A year ago this week, my daughter Hope and I were in Uganda where we fell in love with our sisters there. The other half of the sky. We met young women like Lillian in the video below, born on that red...
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What the North American Church is Most Hungry For
So yeah, dear North American Church, Anywhere, if you dared to look into eyes and didn’t turn away, you’d care. Yeah, yeah, I know — another day, another cracking news flash, another crisis we’re all...
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[*UPDATE of Miracle below] Into Iraq #2: What the News isn’t telling You &...
[… yeah, this really isn’t easy… but it’s infinitely harder to live. And? If you read right to the end — it gets real practical and very tangible and we get to seriously change things….*UPDATE &...
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*UPDATED: HALF A MILLION DOLLARS?!? How You all KEEP CRUSHING IT, are WAGING...
As thousands of Iraqis in the city of Ramadi are fleeing ISIS right this very moment — we said hard things to the North American church yesterday and we all didn’t turn away from what’s happening......
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When You’re Kinda Weary of all the Injustices
Somebody’s own son got profiled because of the colour of his skin… And a girl got stripped and taken and trafficked in the dark…. and when I got waved up to the customs officer, he looked me in the...
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when you really need a fresh way forward: The Emmaus Option
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An Honest Conversation About Abortion that Asks Us Not to Turn Away — from...
When I get the message that Sozan wants an abortion, it feels like all the air got vacuumed out of my lungs. But I get it. I once sat in a doctor’s office and the atomic blast of my own pregnancy test...
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you know they’re laughing at us, right? on the trivialization, monetization &...
So when I step out on to the front porch this morning, there’s a Bible right there at my feet, ripped up into a million mocking shreds. The Sermon on the Mount is torn and chewed and spit out by the...
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how to find a way through when the world feels like it’s in crisis [Or: how a...
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Dear Aylan … dear world with a refugee crisis, dear all of us who have needed...
Dear Aylan, Dear little refugee boy who drowned in the sea — You just wanted the dirt I call home, to be your home. That’s what they said: When they scooped up your little Syrian body on the shores of...
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5 Ways To Stand Up & Be The Church in The World’s Worst Refugee Crisis Since...
1. Be Moved AFP/Getty Images Quick Facts to Understand the Crisis: –> One Stop to Understand it All The world is in the worst refugee crisis since World War II. And Syria’s civil war and the...
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Why Now is The Church’s Moment & It Will Take All of Us Not to Miss It...
Daniel Etter/The New York Times Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters AFP/Getty Images This is a moment in history. The world is facing the worst refugee crisis since WWII. You woke up this morning and you...
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when loving your enemies, the stranger, & your neighbor feels way too risky
I once sat with a farmer in Israel who had all the trees in his orchard cut down by his neighbor — and he turned to me and he said, “I refuse to be enemies with anyone.” After replanting new trees with...
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a love letter about beautiful people & living & loving large in a world with...
This is what I was going to say before Paris. I was going to say that I had found where you can find the most beautiful people. I was going to say that they were in the security line at the bottom of...
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how a fearful & weary world can rejoice
Five days before Christmas, while we’re pulling wide sheets of gingerbread out of the oven and keeping the candle wicks lit, it’s front page news on CNN. How a guy just shy of his 18th, who gang raped...
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