From South Bend to Southwest
What is a border? A boundary is made by whom and for what? Who decides how it’s maintained or kept or changed? Our group of Indiana pastors made it here to San Diego tonight....
Give us this day... that we may be fed.
Preparing for Pilgrimage
Tomorrow I leave with sixteen pastors from different denominations around the state of Indiana. We are bound for Tijuana. We’re part of the Lilly funded Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program. Our goal is to engage...
Lent Pilgrim
We are all pilgrims. But where is it we are bound? I love the way the English language works on this last sentence. On the one hand it asks, “Where are we headed? What...
Home again, home again jiggity jog
We said farewell to most of our crew on Tuesday evening while thirteen of us ventured on to Jordan to see Petra and Mt Nebo. Or fellow pilgrims arrived safe and sound the other...
Finding Nebo
Moses wasn’t lost. His was simply an extended tour. He wanted to make sure future generations would make stops in the desert to experience complete reliance on God in barren places. And to have...
Nunc Dimittis
He had only one thing on his bucket list. Simeon was one of those kind old men who lingers long after the religious service, blessing with his smile everyone who looks at his face....
Hawking Holiness Here
Israel’s chief export is holiness. And holiness here flows from a complicated network of sources and streams, often competing with one another to meet the market’s demand. We have been praised by our guide...
Jerusalem, Jerusalem…
“Now our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.” Psalm 122:2 Today was another amazing whirlwind of history, archeology and a journey of faith steeped in cross cultural immersion. We started with a...
