Our Challenge to Imagine a Nonviolent World

It’s almost too much these days to even turn on the television news, open the morning paper or log on to a news website. Most of us are on edge and we can’t handle another bad news story. The Boston Marathon bombing. The kidnapped trio of women in...

How Your Church Can Help Returning Soldiers

A local hospital called me early on a Monday morning to visit one of their new patients. All I was told was that this gentleman had been homeless and had served in the current war. Upon arrival, I was told to go to the psych ward, enter an access code and see the...

How Does Your Church React to Issues? Fear or Love

As a boy, I spent a great deal of the summer at my grandparent’s ranch. It was a child’s dream – endless space to roam, all sorts of animals, ponds to swim in, trees to climb and stars to count. One day, I was running around the yard instead of doing what...