Finding Momentum

There was some sort of relief, I decided, in hav­ing set foot in the Occupy camp and find­ing it quiet. Wednes­day, Oak­land was paraded across the global con­scious­ness as national news media dis­played scenes of urban war­fare, with ghostly images of terror-stricken faces sent helter-skelter across the air­waves. Zach showed me the front­page of the […]

My nephew, he’s the one in Afghanistan. Some­times I wish I could take his place because if I go… (silence) it doesn’t mat­ter. Lis­ten, I ain’t gonna lie about it. I’m an alco­holic. I don’t drink because I’m sad. I drink because I lii­i­i­i­i­ike drink­ing. I don’t know if I can trust you any­more, man. […]

The more I stay here the more I real­ize that I am tired, I am self­ish, I am resent­ful. I am being changed–yes–by enter­ing the lives of peo­ple in poverty and see­ing the grace of being invited into their lives. Yes, I am learn­ing from them a sim­ple faith and a sim­ple life. But it is […]

I’m wrestling a lot these days with the idea of Jus­tice and what it looks like to be a Christian–and a human–in the midst of it. This week, the interns and I have been at the Not for Sale Acad­emy receiv­ing train­ing on human traf­fick­ing before we head out to the Philip­pines in April. I’m feeling […]

An info­graphic for Free­dom Sun­day at Regen­er­a­tion. Down­load as PDF.

Tonight, we watched a video in Stephen Min­istry that left me moved and feel­ing heavy at the same time. Dr. Diane Lang­berg spoke a mes­sage about the real­ity of bro­ken­ness and suf­fer­ing in our lives and the need for com­pas­sion­ate Chris­tians to sit with the hurt­ing and min­is­ter with pres­ence. I’ve been think­ing about human […]

Thanks for your gen­er­ous dona­tions. We raised $1140 for IJM!

I’m feel­ing a mix of antic­i­pa­tion and excite­ment (“wow! a real marathon!” “wow! SF is cool!”) with a bit of fear as well (“will I make it to the fin­ish line with­out an explod­ing kneecap or total quad dom­i­na­tion??”) as race day approaches fast! I’m excited, no doubt. Tony and I are going to run […]

Sup­port us as we run for the IJM! I’ve opened up a dona­tion link through an appli­ca­tion called Causes. You can go ahead and donate via credit card as shown: Donate to the cause online! » We hope to hit our fundrais­ing tar­get of $1000 by race day (August 3rd). That’s only NINE days away. I’ll […]

Bowen asked me a good ques­tion on my last post–“Any rea­son why IJM in par­tic­u­lar?” I answered to the effect that 1) it was the first orga­ni­za­tion that my friends had men­tioned to me regard­ing human traf­fick­ing and 2) I have an older friend who worked there a cou­ple of years ago. I want to follow […]