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‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’ Rediscovering Our Lost...

‘God endows our bodily longing for communion with His reordering Presence. There lies our hope for wholeness, for becoming an integrated...

While the Midwest froze, Desert Stream glimpsed an early Spring at our Living Waters Training in London last week. Seeds sown and tended...

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

Tended by Jesus, chastity is fire in the fireplace: a controlled burn that heats up a cold house, eases up for tenderness, stays true to...

Ania and I just celebrated our second wedding anniversary on December 17. Freed (respectively) from the domination of sexual abuse and...

A friend of mine in a hard relationship approached me, cast down. As he looked up, I saw moist eyes and from them, a small stream (in the...

Weird reunion. Annette’s older ‘gay’-identified brother John, unraveling in San Francisco, needed family. His friends had died or given...

The US Supreme Court just finished oral arguments concerning Tennessee’s statewide ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for...

I was stressed out anyway, but the new book by theologians Richard and Christopher Hayes (father and son) on homosexuality set me off (...

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).   Andy has described our family as bombastic; I prefer...

Bloody Aliens   ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).  The bloviating (think ‘blow hard’) of this election season––across...

Redemption>Republican  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    One fallacy from this election season? All conservative...

Make Your World Holy  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    Holiness cannot be legislated; it can only be advanced through...

Wholly Holy   ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    This political season has inspired my passion to be a clean vessel,...

Discerning the Narrow Way  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    An election is over, the dust is settling, and most of...

Rebuilding Trust  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    Trust in public life is at an all-time low. The grand...

Bridging the Divide              ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    Elections are always polarizing. Still, I...

Seek Jesus First   ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).    Today I am seeking first the Kingdom of God (Matt. 6:33). Please...

Empathic Aliens  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17)    God allows us to experience alienation so we can love aliens of all...