“In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centered on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe [or Britain], where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to […]

In a recent debate with someone close to me, as I was lamenting the consequences of greed-driven American imperialism, a sharp statement was thrown my way: “You really hate America, don’t you?” It made me pause. It forced me to sit down and unpack why an honest, well-documented assessment of an evil done by fellow Americans under the banner of our flag would be met with that kind of defensive reflex.

My Grandfather, William T. Iverson, (95 years old now) has always been a mystic on a mission to love the hell out of humanity and see the shalom (holistic peace) of the Kingdom of God be put on display everywhere he went and in everything he did… Most of what I saw him doing my […]

What will you do with your breath? That’s the question of our times. That’s the question I hear our suffocating Savior Jesus asking us from the cross.

Thoughts One of the board members for Restore Life, the organization I lead, recently turned me on to a book she loved by Howard Thurman called “Meditations of the Heart.” I’ve been reading it in the early morning watch as this new year gets started, and God has been using it to speak wonderful things […]

“You know you’re beautiful, right?” He whispered to me the morning after my 35th birthday, while my body still lay half-paralyzed from the exhaustion of the past week….a late night stay in the ER with my sister-in-law who was enduring painful appendicitis, two days of homeschool co-ops, one of which I taught at, late night […]

Ms. Cora from down the street gave it to me two years ago. My eighty-six year old gardening neighbor, the one that said, “I hear the gunshots, but even though I live here alone, I’m not scared. I know the Lord is with me. ” She has not been jaded over the past 30 years […]