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In the 1980’s, long before Bono’s “One” Initiative and the UN Millenium Development Goals brought extreme poverty into worldwide focus, 25 year old Jacqueline Novogratz left a cushy Wall Street banking job and stepped onto a plane to Kigali, Rwanda with an eye on changing the world. Fast forward more than two decades and a…

I kicked off my first Lent with great enthusiasm and expectation. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was that I expected, but I imagined it would be difficult to spend 40 days stretching the boundaries of comfort and routine to focus on my spiritual life without it having an impact. I even signed up to…

He is Risen. Those three words are showing up everywhere today. Before heading out to church and back to back feasts with family, (not sure if it is traditional, but I’m already full thinking about all of the food on our agenda today) I wanted to read the story in full. So, without commentary, I…

You open your eyes slowly, turning from your side to your back and struggling to focus exhausted eyes on the exposed rafters of the roof above you. “Was it a dream?” you ask the air, as you shift mind and body restlessly in an attempt to separate fact from fantasy. The events of the previous…

Several of my students have asked me what kind of answers I received to my most recent post, Wanted: Wisdom for Soon-To-Be College Grads Facing an Uncertain Future. While they have been portrayed in the media as overly entitled trophy kids raised by overly doting helicopter parents the activism this generation showed by the around the Obama campaign has led…

Less than 50 days until graduation and my undergraduate college students are starting to get a little nervous. Some know where they are going when they leave school – graduate school or a job offer on the heels of an internship. But many of these intelligent, well-qualified and hard-working students are wondering how and when…

Have you ever wondered if you would do it? If – with full knowledge that you would be betrayed and denied by your friends; stripped of everything you own; beaten and taunted; and, finally, put to death in a brutal and humiliating way – you’d have straddled the back of that donkey and ridden into…

The second part of Leonard Sweet‘s new book, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church, focuses on the “R” in what Sweet calls the “MRI” manifestation of faith (where “M” is Missional, “R” is Relational and “I” is Incarnational. Click here for excerpts from Part 1: The Missional Life. In Part 2 Sweet writes: With…

Len Sweet‘s new book, So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life and the Church, is ripe with wisdom about what it means to live a faith that transcends attractional, colonial models. Introducing what he calls a “So Beautiful” or MRI manifestation of faith (where M = missional, R = Relational and I = Incarnational), Sweet offers…

I didn’t go to church as a kid. In fact, I didn’t believe in God until I was in my 30s. I can only speculate about what might have been better in my life had I grown up in church. Maybe I would have made better decisions in my teens and 20s. Maybe I’d have been…
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