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Pursuing Questions. Exploring Paradox.
NOTE: I am taking a “summer break” from my weekly newsletter and weekly blog articles. They will return in the fall. Have a restful and renewing summer.
Slow Down and Ponder #2: Solitude
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...
Slow Down and Ponder: “Putting Off and Putting On”
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...
Ministry in Cairo and Lusaka, February 2020
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...
Greetings from Addis Ababa
What every international traveler wants to avoid happened to me--I left the US on January 4. 2020 sick with the flu! Consequently, I spent my first four days in Addis Ababa in bed with a fever. I also lost my voice the day I arrived and for several days could only...
My Content (What I Write About)
My goal is helping you pursue powerful questions that will lead you into new discoveries—about yourself, the world around you and, especially, God.
Where others give answers that side-step nuance or mystery, I ask questions.
Questions open us up to new truth in ways that easy answers do not. I believe this is particularly true for spiritual issues, where the Christian faith journey has often been described as “faith seeking understanding.” My hope is pursue this journey in ways that challenge our minds and deepen our faith.
“I wouldn’t give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity…..but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”
Do these words of Oliver Wendell Holmes resonate with you?
- I write for people weary of simplistic answers. By exploring complex issues, my hope is to emerge on the “other side” into a more genuine and truthful simplicity.
- I write for thinkers who believe reality is never captured in a Twitter message, and who need practical ways to keep believing in a “post truth” society.
- I write for explorers who believe the X Files’ promise: “The truth IS out there.” My offer is to journey alongside together seeking the truth (and Truth) that inevitably challenges and expands our current worldviews.
My Featured Publication
Paradox Lost: Rediscovering the Mystery of God
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