Last month, we described our “league-ness.” This month let us remind ourselves: the World Mission Prayer League is a community at prayer. I write to you from the backbone of the Andes, the high altiplano of Bolivia. I have been … (read more)
I have been reading a wonderful book in recent days by Alan Hirsch, a converted Australian Jew. He calls it “The Forgotten Ways” (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006). We have been forgetting things though the years, Hirsch contends. Ways … (read more)
I have been thinking a little lately about transposition — the process, that is, by which musicians ratchet a tune up (or down) the musical scale, from one key to another. It is a wonder to behold. I have seen … (read more)
This month, now at midsummer, let’s get going. There is very much work to do! Sometimes, of course, we should be slowing down. We must measure our pace along the road to Jericho, for example – as the Good Samaritan … (read more)
This month, at the beginning of the summer, let’s slow down. As for myself, I have developed through the years a fast-paced ritual to begin the day. I am up and coffeed early in the morning. I pause, on most … (read more)
Thank goodness for the Ascension! Our Lord made his departure, I think, in the very nick of time. The disciples, you see, were on the verge of (another) colossal blunder. They were experienced in colossal blunders, actually. What made matters … (read more)
Scientists at IBM have recently measured the force required to push a single atom of cobalt across a smooth surface made of platinum. In case you missed the announcement, you may be interested to know: the feat requires approximately one-130-millionth … (read more)
Harry Spiller collects things. I have learned that Harry collects string, for example: he has mounds of it in his New York City apartment. Harry collects plastic spoons, too: bags upon boxes of plastic tableware. And Harry boasts the world’s … (read more)
New Testament people are a wonderfully unusual bunch. Not perhaps for the way they look. Not for the way they dress or the things they do or say. They are unusual for who they are — for their basic … (read more)
A few days ago I returned from a wonderful visit to several of our mission partners in India. I returned to Minneapolis full of enthusiasm — the sort of enthusiasm that issues from the conviction that God is at work … (read more)