If there’s one thing Christians want to do, it is to help. We know we’re called to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and look after the sick (Matthew 25). We see people in our communities and around...

My we help the helpless, comfort the mourner, sympathize with the widow and fatherless, and may we always be ready to put up with wrong, to be long-suffering, to be very patient, full of forgiveness...

In this episode Andrew Reinstra joins us to talk about what it's like to reconcile his experiences his birth and adoptive families. We get into the questions *not* to ask an adopted person. If you've...

Editor's Note: The following post reflects on the concept of 'whiteness' - not a skin colour or race, but as an ideology that equates lighter skinned people with spiritual maturity and civilization...

Be our primary disease, and infect us with your justice; Be our night visitor, and haunt us with your peace; Be our moth that consumes, and eat away at our unfreedom. Until we are toward you and with...

Recently I settled my youngest son into a semester of study in New Mexico – near the Navajo Nation. It has been good to see him begin to be immersed once again into our culture, our foods, our...

“When you have the chemistry, the biology will follow.” This is an actual quote from a conversation between a farmer and a soil chemistry specialist.. What are they talking about you ask??? They are...

The waxing and waning reports of people crossing our southern border bring to mind the times I have cared for children in resiliency centers in Texas and Afghan children at Fort Bliss. Why did I do...

Since every gift comes down from the All-Giver, How can I choose between the Giver’s gifts Or say which should come first, the fish or river? He scatters first, and then calls us to gather, To lavish...

People are a little shocked when we tell them that we are “Missionaries” who don’t start any programs. As servants of Christ we come beside individuals and see what their dreams are for their...

Christopher Columbus, so brave and true, sailed the mighty ocean blue, in fourteen hundred and ninety-two, and found a land so bright and new! Or so the hagiography goes. Brian Walsh and Rick...

We are dab-hands at fishing: why should we incline To net people instead? {Matt 4:18ff ‘There’s a catch to convince you that I am divine.’ We’re five thousand famished; you tell us to dine On two...