We’ve decided to launch the book officially in December at Urbana 09 in St. Louis, where it will be available at the bookstore.  Adam and I will be there, too, volunteering and soaking up time with some of the countries’ most exciting current and future leaders in holistic missions.  Find us and chat if you’re [...]

Sloshing along a thin path in dress shoes and loafers, the dozen seminary students and I were taking a break from a day-long silent prayer retreat to appreciate the beauty, order, and creativity in God’s creation together.  Instead of the typical “what a cool little purple flower” kind of comments you’d expect on a spring [...]

To kick things off, here’s a response I just wrote for a question asked by Darcie Nolan, editor of the forthcoming social justice magazine, Eye See Magazine.
Darcie asks: “Can you explain the title, Into the Mud?”
I like to say that this is not so much a book about Africa, or development, or missions, as it [...]