Living as a wanderer Reflections & Ponderings

Walls that Segregate Us: Pursuing Reconciliation

I’ve never spent much time considering walls, fences, barriers of any sort. To be quite honest, unless you are in the business of fence building or ranching I don’t know who does? Most of us would say we rarely take notice of a fence or wall in our daily lives. So why bother writing about them? This summer our family wandered over to South Africa to visit friends and former China teammates–a long-awaited reunion. As…

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Living as a wanderer The Pilgrim Life

Voluntary Displacement

Spiritual Formation The Pilgrim Life

Be My Neighbor: Lessons From Mr. Rogers and Jesus

Sometimes the lessons we learn as a child don’t begin to make sense until we experience more of life and mature. Today’s blog unfolded in that way for me, so bear with me in what might seem like a tangent.   Our church recently asked us to help encourage an effort to reach out to our surrounding community. However, in the back of my mind, I kept thinking, “How can we go into the community…

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