Greetings from the road.  I am traveling with Don Miller on his “Million Miles” tour.  We started off doing a dozen shows in a dozen days in a dozen cities (and 2 countries!).  It felt like we traveled a million miles in the first fortnight. I couldn’t be happier. Well except that my dear...

Ah, fall: when a young woman’s thoughts turn to warm fires and books, a young man’s thoughts turn to college football, and Phoenicians dream of going outside once more. I used to be a summer man, but now I’m all about autumn.  This week’s forecast dips down to a balmy 99 degrees! ...

In the summer of 2006 I took a copy of Shane Claiborne’s debut book, The Irresistible Revolution, on a family camping trip to the Nehalem River in northwest Oregon.  As we tented under a canopy of firs and cedars, my husband and I traded the book back and forth as we enjoyed our time in the forest. Claiborne...

The Kava plant grows in southeast Asia and the islands of the south Pacific. Pacific Islanders have known about its calming properties for centuries. They use the plant in beverage form to treat anxiety and insomnia. It’s also popular with tourists trying to relax into a vacation. One benefit of Kava...

“Empathy.” That’s what she was looking for. It was the first night of our church small group, and I had asked what people wanted out of the experience. Most of the responses were predictable, but this one stopped the conversation in its tracks. Being good, robust evangelicals, we immediately started...

College prepares a person for life in the real world. It’s that magical time that urges kids to forget about cliques and “popularity” in exchange for individuality and maturity. It’s an exciting transitional stage. But it’s not just about preparation for a full-time job. ...

I met Tom Davis a few years ago at K2 Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. I was there to check out the cool warehouse-church with the beach sandal billboard; Tom was there to tell the church about suffering orphans, young girls entering the sex-trade, and a generation decimated by HIV/Aids. Three minutes...

Around a year and a half ago, I was approached by David Sanford, founder of Sanford Communications1 out of Portland.  David was working on a project with Tyndale, a New Living Translation of the Bible that would feature art and book excerpts from throughout the history of Christianity, as well as a...

via http://www.blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm For a long time, grafitti got a bad rap.  It was thought of as nothing more than vandalism. These days, street artists are getting more positive recognition, but perhaps because it’s become a more acceptable artform, it’s become a bit, well,...

Some weeks ago, Dylan Peterson published a post on our old blog entitled “The Cost of Blasphemy (Priceless)”. Dylan was new to our site.  He is a talented writer who’s work has appeared in Killing the Buddha, Relevant, and his blog, which also features a piece on the “Top 10...