My parents made me come home from college to participate in my high school graduation ceremony. I’d finished high school a semester early so I could dive into college life, and the thought of getting on a train and heading home for a stupid ceremony commemorating a milestone I’d passed a month earlier really annoyed…

A good percentage of us boomers who came to faith in Christ in our teens are the the Jesus Movement‘s direct offspring. But we know that our offspring are increasingly distancing themselves from the kind of faith practice that grew in the rock-n-roll soil of this hippie-style revival. (Check out the trippy chart accompanying this…

– Did you know you can get corn on your pizza in Israel? – The day before Israeli Independence Day is a solemn day known as Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day). At 11:00 AM, the air raid sirens sounded. Everything in the country comes to a halt. Cars stop.…

We made it after 24 grueling hours of travel. It feels like we never left Jerusalem, perhaps because we left a piece of our hearts here in February. We at dinner looking at a view like this one, and we tasted the goodness of God. More to follow. Time to have our friend, the cheerful…

So many questions…Feel free to give me some answers. Or add some random questions of your own! Do you view yourself as a spiritual settler, a wanderer, a pilgrim or an exile? None of the above? All of the above? I would like to propose a new rule: the only church leaders who are allowed…

Tomorrow is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day – and in light of the staggering hatred of that era, and of the genocidal, demonic activity that has anhiliated subsequent generations in places like Bosnia and Rwanda – I found myself pondering Pastor Martin Niemoller’s words today. Niemoller spent 8 years in prison during the second world…