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Continue reading →: China Today
This is the first of several weekly postings on my recent 18 day visit to China. CHINA Awe, Emptiness and Strange, Uneasy Feelings I’ve struggled to find adequate words to describe my impressions and feelings that grow out of my 18 days in China, this great nation of 1.3 billion…
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Continue reading →: Conversing in “Post-Modern”
Holding spiritual conversations in a post-modern culture can be quite difficult at times, especially for evangelical Christians and those who still approach religion from a “modern” point of view. Yet, there is a great need for pastors, leaders and other individual Christians to learn how to think, listen and talk…
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Continue reading →: Horror and Hope in Africa
(Warning: Some of the material in this posting is very graphic and disturbing.) Our car tires kept crashing into huge pot holes every ten feet on the only “paved” road through Goma, Congo. We bounced along, veering to the right and left to avoid the worst of craters, and a…
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Continue reading →: Hopes and Dreams
All I got was a blank stare. I had asked the group what their hopes and dreams for the future were. At first, no one knew what to say. One person hoped he didn’t run out of money before he died. Another was scared about getting dementia. Someone else said…
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Continue reading →: What about other religions?
So far, I’ve been able to identify three or four really good reasons to engage in inter-faith dialogue: to learn from more about other religions from real adherents, to promote peace and harmony among different peoples, and to work together to address common societal problems, such as poverty or hunger.…
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Continue reading →: What the Buddhists Taught Me
Southeast Asia was a great experience for me. I spent four weeks in Myanmar and Thailand interviewing Buddhist monks, Christian and Buddhist professors of religion, directors of inter-faith dialogue programs, and peace workers. I now have a much better understanding of Buddhism and realize that many Christians have underestimated or…
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Continue reading →: Knowing God, the Holy Spirit, Better (3 of 7)
The series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. In Spanish art, the Holy Spirit is often depicted as a dove. The image comes from the Gospel stories of Jesus’ baptism. In all four accounts, the evangelists…
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Continue reading →: Knowing God Better–As Son (2 of 7)
The series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. We can know a fair amount about Jesus, the Son of God, through the Gospels. Yet most of realize that knowing about Jesus is not the same thing…
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Continue reading →: Knowing God Better–As Father (1 of 7)
The series is about knowing God, the creator, more deeply and being able to experience God more personally in your daily life. Surprise! Seeking to know God better is paying off already. As soon as I opened myself more fully to the mystical path of knowing God–looking for what I…
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Continue reading →: A Grounded Life
Triacastela, Spain. 145 km (87 miles) to go to reach Santiago. Both of Jill ´s ankles are wrapped to get her through the remaining week, my sons are more than ready to go home now, and I ´m fantasizing about The Original Pancake House, American movies, and sleeping in my…
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