In early January 2007, my study group was discussing what it meant to be radically available to God. The idea was that you have to give up everything for God, that you have to listen to what He is calling you to do. Somebody asked me what I thought about it. “I’m going to be…
Regardless of our political persuasions, I think we can all agree we live in a culture that leans toward the judgmental. How does this current climate affect us as followers of Christ, especially when we encounter those living in poverty? In an effort to be less “judgmental,” some Christians have swung all the way to…
Well, here we go again, I thought. More marathon reading about the world’s destitute. Sounds a little callous, doesn’t it? But I was trying to gather some courage. This was not the first time I had been given this assignment, and I knew it would affect me emotionally. An international social service agency’s American sponsors gave…