by Rich Hansen | Jun 28, 2020 | Provocative Questions
During seminary I spent a semester as a hospital chaplain, serving eight hours/day in a large metropolitan medical center. Never in my life had I been exposed to situations of life and death or the emotional stress felt by patients and their families. I felt...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 28, 2020 | Provocative Questions
Some years ago I was listening as our small home group discussed the spiritual disciplines we’re focusing on this Lenten season. One of our group members gave a great analogy. She said that anyone who desires to have a healthier diet must do two things...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 28, 2020 | Provocative Questions
Sigurd Olsen, an outdoorsman/writer who spent his life paddling the lakes and rivers of the huge swath of wilderness on the Minnesota-Canadian border enveloped by silence broken only by the cry of a loon or the splash of a jumping trout, once wrote: “without stillness...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 28, 2020 | Provocative Questions
I am bearing witness today that there is a growing hunger around the world, including among some of us here in the US. There is a growing desire to move from the safe and familiar performance of religious duties to an unfamiliar and more costly life as authentic...
by Rich Hansen | Jun 28, 2020 | Mission in Africa
My last newsletter in early February shared highlights of my ministry in Ethiopia. Today, I want to briefly share what I experienced in Cairo, Egypt and Lusaka, Zambia. Please read on. The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (ETSC) is tucked into a narrow...
