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Estie, my middle daughter, returns from Zambia this morning. She's been there for three months practicing nursing skills. It's been a difficult jour...
If you pay attention, you'll notice many Christians dancing this strange little tango that I call "the Dance of the Burned Believer." I've danced it...
In Swaziland where the HIV infection rate is the highest in the world (45%), chances are good that you'll die before you reach 30. If AIDS doesn't...
I got an email from a guy who is going to write an article about how training for short-term missions is inadequate. I replied,"The problem is not tha...
Tiffany Berkowitz is something. The youngest leader on our July '09 World Race, she is on a roll in Swaziland. This is probably the first time I've po...
Kari Miller is a friend who has developed a deep sense of community with a group of widows in Uganda. One of her best friends from that group, a widow...
In yesterday's blog, I challenged readers to take a look at the narrowness of their worldview. But how do we even know what's narrow and what's not? T...
We are way too parochial in America. We grow up speaking only English, thinking that ours is the only fishbowl to swim in, immersed in a culture w...
Our work in Africa continually overwhelms us. The issues of life and death are so immediate there. This morning I read a report from from Tiffany Berk...
Nsoko, Swaziland is the most pain-filled place on earth I know. In a country where 45% of adults have the HIV virus, the people of Nsoko have an infec...
