Archive for December, 2009

At Urbana

Hey, it’s day two of Urbana, Intervarsity’s humungo missions conference in St. Louis.  My book is on shelves, and I have huge boxes of sample excerpts to give away.
“We were born ten years too late,” Adam commented as we compared notes on the sessions we had attended, “it seems like everything is about social justice [...]

If Jesus were born in Africa

As we sat in a standstill traffic jams on the narrow muddy road through the Huruma slum (the second largest slum in Nairobi), I looked out my window at the rows of corrugated tin houses framed by heaps of trash along the roadside, and the thought crossed my mind, “If Jesus were born today, perhaps [...]

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Here’s the book!

Tomorrow the book will be officially launched.  Go get yourself a copy now!

Nairobi is…

Two weeks in Kenya could fill thirty pages of blogging, so I’ll start instead with a poem.  Our family decided to spent two weeks from December 1st through 16th traveling in Kenya, hosted by a Kenyan former student from the seminary where we worked in South Africa.  It was a perfect way to wrap up [...]

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