January Adventure – 1

I looked at the notice in a summer Christian Century.  Walter Brueggemann and Barbara Brown Taylor were going to be speaking at at 3–day event in Georgia.  Brueggemann’s topic was Jeremiah, and Taylor’s was about spiritual practices.
I remember being intrigued by the opportunity.  They are both favorites of mine.  But the distance and time made it [...]

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Missio Dei

Fred Peatross, from Huntington, West Virginia, is a friend of mine that I’ve never met in person.  Our relationship is facilitated by e-mail.  I live in California.  We became friends because of Jim Henderson who lives in Seattle, Washington.  West Virginia, California, and Washington—this is a great picture of our times.
Fred’s new book, Missio Dei, is [...]

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Micro Loans

ABC News featured a story tonight about micro loans.  These are small loans that are made to entrepreneurs all over the Third World, so that they can start businesses that will support their families.  Even small loans of $25 make a huge difference in the quality of life for these people.

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Worst Places to Live

This was a headline on page A-1 of the local Merced Sun-Star:  “New Book Ranks Merced Fourth Worst Place to Live in U.S.”  It’s not exactly the sort of thing you want to hear about your city.
Criteria for the designation includes cost of living index, air quality, job availability, health care, and climate.  It struck [...]

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The Global Rich List

I find that it is quite easy to feel sorry for myself when I use myself or people I consider to be more privileged than myself as points of comparison. Grumbling issues for me can include a wide variety of things.
That was until I went to the Global Rich List website. The website [...]

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Simple Church

I just finished reading Simple Church by Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger. I’ve been reading it for a couple of weeks, and I am greatly impressed by its profound treatment of simplicity. Rainer and Geiger concluded as a result of a lot of research that simple churches grow more and are healthier than [...]

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