- People Shouldn’t Be Bought & Sold Make a step towards becoming an Abolitionist. Today is the last day to vote for Justice for Children International on the Myspace Impact awards. JFCI is a close friend of 24-7 Prayer and Stop the Traffik, and they are doing marvelous things to stop the buying and selling of children in the global sex-trade. (And […]
- What I’ve Been Working On If you would like to know what I’ve been working on, here is one thing. I recently finished a project for my class on Ministering to Street Children, and I got the wild idea to submit it as a blog-article, rather than just a boring paper (with an extra-large title…) “Listening to the Marginalized Voices […]
- My Million Dollar Challenge So my Dad signed me up to play in the CNBC “Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge.” CNBC gives you $1,000,000 in fake money, you spend it on stocks, and then each week they award someone $10k in real cash for having the hottest portfolio. The top dawg wins the real million. My entry in this game […]
- Kiss My Brain My brain needs a smooch. Or a synapse-massage, perhaps. I’m still in Pasadena finishing up the last three days of a two week intensive at Fuller. And I’m knee-deep in excellent books for the two courses I’m working on this quarter: Ministering to Street Kids and Contemporary Culture in Missiological Perspective (a.k.a. “Our culture is […]
- “I Don’t Believe in Love” “I don’t believe in love. I believe in God. Because He is bigger.” -Cristina Ionescu, a street-dwelling teenager in Romania I spent a significant part of this V-Day in class watching a documentary called, Children Underground. It was both beautiful and terrible. It presents the gritty lives of five Romanian street-dwelling children, and their fight […]
- So Rich, Am I Here’s a snappy little site that calculates how rich you are, in proportion to the rest of the world’s population: Global Rich List. It’s a quick glance to see how we could help others by giving, even giving just a little at a time. (For example, $73 could buy me a new mobile phone OR […]
- Purpose-Driven to the Poor I spent most of my birthday week in Santa Barbara, California. Saturday night, after eating one of the most lavish meals of my life at a dear friend’s wedding, I met a homeless man named Wyatt. He told me his story. A fire in his apartment sent him to the streets. I was dressed to […]
- Would Jesus Drink @ Starbucks? I’m not sure what Gus the cat thinks about Starbucks. The only brew he could smell was the stuff we poured out in that old apartment in Sao Joao. We only drank from those cheap, hand-painted mugs from Evora that were forever chipping. The saints of the earth would often mail us some of that […]