Today is Ash Wednesday and marks the season of Lent – 40 days of preparation before Easter. I didn't come from a Christian tradition that celebrated the church calendar, but I have found practices like this deeply spiritual. It's a time of reflection, fasting and prayer that helps me to focus on spiritual things I…

I'm currently writing and researching for my second novel, Sacred. The book focuses on the child sex-slave industry centered in Eastern Europe and Russia that stretches all over the world. One of the 'myths' I have stumbled upon is the belief that this kind of thing doesn't happen in the United States. Of course, nothing…

We've been working on a DVD for Fields of the Fatherless  to help introduce each chapter for everyone doing individual or group studies. Here's the introduction. These are 5-7 minute intros of me talking about why I wrote the chapter. Click here for the Children's HopeChest link on YouTube that contains all the videos. Here's a quick testimony from…

This weekend, Children’s HopeChest will launch two new orphanage sponsorships. I will head to Fargo, North Dakota to kick off Olivet Lutheran Church’s sponsorship of the Kolfe orphanage in Ethiopia. The video below was produced by Olivet to help launch their sponsorship of the 140 orphaned boys living at Kolfe. Also this weekend, our director…

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