Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Red Letters

It's that time of year when our minds turn toward giving gifts to those we love. This year Saint's Coffee is offering several special coffee blends and Christmas packages for the holiday season. This reasonably priced, fair trade and organic coffee is among the top 3 percent of all coffee in the world. And when…

RedWire is live and promoting HIV/AIDS awareness around the world. U2 has recorded a brand new song called, "I Believe in Father Christmas" you can view here. Enjoy!

My oldest biological son, Hayden, turned 12 yesterday. Throughout this past year, I’ve been reading many books on male initiation – how to begin training a boy into the ways of manhood. The best book on this subject by far is, Richard Rohr’s – Adam’s Return. This will be a year long process I will guide…

Some very good friends of ours, Craig and Teddi Domann who are NFL agents, just let us know that two of their nephews were just in a very serious car accident. Jacob is in critical condition and one of the witnesses at the scene told the mother he looked like he was already dead. Please…

Kebebtsehay orphanage in Ethiopia is now fully sponsored with over 100 committed sponsorships. We know have three other orphanages in the process of being sponsored by online communities who are passionate about doing something significant to help the life of an orphan. They just put together a video about their orphanage I though you would…

We went all the way to Ethiopia to get this footage of just a few of Ethiopia's 4.8 million orphaned children. As you can see, each is precious…each in need of a loving sponsor family. Tonight at our annual dinner, over 70 more children were sponsored. Thank you, to all of you who came out…

Friends and Bloggers: This is very IMPORTANT! My friend Patton Dodd of BeliefNet.com and I have linked our respective organizations for the month of November to raise money for orphans, generate conversation about poverty, and give away a trip to Africa. All month, Beliefnet and CHC are encouraging people to donate through a charity badge.…

After the conference call I just hung up from, nothing is impossible. My friends, Josh and Amy Bottomly, have sponsored an entire orphanage through their online blogging community. You can do it too! Kebebetsehay, was one of my favorite orphanages in Ethiopia. It is the home to 120 children including 20 of the cutest babies you've…

Kolfe orphanage is an incredible place filled with 130 boys outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. After spendingt just a few hours with the young men there, I was struck by how polite, engaging and smart they are. They are so conversational I almost didn't realize that this orphanage is situated on a dumping ground.  Every window…

I had to pull the last cover of Scared, my first novel that will release in May of 2009. The publisher wanted to make some changes, now here they are. This series will be marketed under the tag, "Novels with a Conscience." I'm asking you to comment honestly about what you think about this new…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners