To honor mothers everywhere, I’m re-posting this article as Mother’s Day approaches. Time is running out for my friend. We are sitting at lunch when she casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of “starting a family.” What she means is that her biological clock has begun its countdown and she is being […]
Archive | April, 2014
Why Am I Not Poor?
For many years I sat in a pew on Sundays, listening to occasional sermons about the poor, giving to special offerings and looking appropriately sympathetic and concerned about poverty. But I did not truly- in evangelical speak- have a heart for the poor. For much of the rest of the week I was consumed with […]
Support for Syrian Refugees
The numbers are mind boggling. Just this week the 1millionth Syrian refugee entered Lebanon, a country with a population of just four times that number. Jordan now has nearly 600,000 refugees. We hear about the numbers daily, so much so that we begin to become numb to them. I’ve talked about this issue for so […]