World Habitat Day: A Day to Recognize the Basic Need for Shelter
BY: PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER -- World Habitat Day, is a day to recognize the basic need for...
Can I Let Go of What I Really Want…(VIDEO)
...so I can find what I really need?
I want a Burger King Bacon Double Cheeseburger. I want U2's "Achtung Baby" blasting my ear drums. I want to drive as fast as I want with no pot holes, windows down, turni...
Going There: Another Take on the Orphan Crisis
It’s been just over two years since a magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti, killing more than a quarter of a million people and leaving thousands of children orphaned, overwhelming a nation already in crisis. ...
Two Years Later: A Prayer for Haiti
Loving God,
We come to you, first, in silence. We mourn those who died two years ago in the earthquake. And we mourn with those who continue to mourn.
We come to you in sadness, too, for the suffering of...
Joy's Shadow As New School Year Begins
My daughter attended her first day of kindergarten today. A poignant milestone dressed up in an exceptionally cute plaid jumper.
My wife and I thought we were pretty cool with it. Our daughter had attended pr...
Faith in a Time of Cholera
The litany of horrors somehow won't end: an earthquake kills 230, 000; 80 percent of people already living on less than $2 a day; cholera spreading with help from a hurricane and killing thousands so far. The...
Destructive Donations?
Henry Thoreau once said, “When people come and say, ‘I want to help you', I flee.” I think that what Thoreau was trying to tell us is that sometimes those who, with good intentions, try to help can do a g...
Embrace Your Crisis of Faith
A crisis of faith -- when you seriously question whether what you believe/how you see/what you're committed to is actually true -- is a good thing.
It's not pleasant. It hurts. The ground goes wobbly. You may ...
Meeting Jesus in the Poor
In Luke 16:19-31, we read the story that Jesus told about a certain rich man and a poor man named Lazarus who had lain suffering with hunger and a diseased body just outside of the rich man’s house. Jesus tel...
A Year Later – Haiti Earthquake
January 12 marks the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 230, 000 people. In addition to that initial loss of life, there has been dealing with the aftermath. On...