I’m really proud of my team at Raise Their Voice who worked so hard to put together an incredible event. The last number of months have been surreal for me seeing dreams and planning come to reality. Raise Their Voice: The Trafficked + Exploited, the event I’ve been part of planning over the last few [...]
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I’ve been busy at work with my team at Raise Their Voice to create space for a two-day event in April called Raise Their Voice: The Trafficked + Exploited. It’s been a real example for me so far of stepping out in faith and taking a risk. In the lead up to the production of [...]
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Have you ever felt so deeply about something you don’t know what to say? You know something in your guts, and yet you can’t shape the knowing into a word. It’s often how I feel about the big questions – about life and what it means, the things of faith, and big words so easily [...]
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Merry Christmas to each of you. Thanks for stopping by my site throughout the year, leaving encouraging notes, and engaging life with me on the web. What a time to be alive. What a season to celebrate. Christmas always grounds me in meaning. As I think about the Incarnation, how the infinite became finite and [...]
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Annie Dillard asks a question about beauty in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that nearly stops my beating heart. She frames the question with an Eskimo story told by Farley Mowat about a man, his young wife, and the girl’s mother at the top of the world. Jealous of her daughter’s love, the old woman strangles [...]
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Well, this is certainly a first for me, blogging from 32, 000 ft. It’s been one of those flights you dread. To be fair, things started well. I got my ticket and went through security like a greased pig slips through a farmer’s calloused hand. I wasn’t racially profiled which occasionally happens, nor was I [...]
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If you’ve followed my blog you may have taken note that I’m a fan of Anne Rice’s recent works (the Christ the Lord series was my introduction to her writing). But more than that, I’m a fan of her as a writer and a person. She is generous and giving as an author. As a [...]
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Interview: Bryan + Katie Torwalt, "Here on Earth"
Andrew's TEDx talk, "Considering Danger"
Interview: Kidnap Survivor and Inspiring Humanitarian Amanda Lindhout
If God Had A Facebook Account, What Would He Write on Your Wall?
Mephiboseth, a short story by Andrew Kooman
If Rudyard Kipling had Fridge Magnets
Chasing Tradition: Herbert's "Altar"
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