Last year I did some hard heart work surrounding the act of forgiveness. Turns out I had some things churning within that I hadn't quite dealt with yet. Not just that, but when I uncovered these hidden trenches of not-quite-forgiveness, I was met not with that 70x7 Bible verse, but instead...
Read moreDisturbing the Peace
I've a picture in my mind: two young white men held close to the ground by police in the act of arrest. They were standing in protest, disrupting traffic on Chicago's Michigan Avenue, declaring Black Lives Matter. Too many boys had been shot...
Read moreThe Smallest Bite of the Straightest Road
We ate pumpkin seeds in a Ford Taurus as it sped along I-80. Food in my dad’s nice car — leather seats and built in GPS before iPhones and GoogleMaps were zygotes in the mind of Steve Jobs — was a treat, even as a newly-minted adult.
Read moreLinks from Where I've Been
A part of our job here has always been to explore our little bit of the island we call home, engaging with culture, connecting with communities doing similar work, and listening and learning from those who know more than us.
Read moreThe World Around My Kitchen Table
It surprises me even now, even still, how children who grow up in a culture outside their parents’ passport cultures somehow, instinctively, just know one another. They flock together, bound by the shared experience of being slightly displaced.
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