Since my previous blog posts on this topic, I’ve had some interesting discussions, online and in real life, with people whose experiences during that time were far more positive than mine. Putting that together with discussions that I’ve had over the years with pastors and leaders about how to be better prepared for the “next […]
My junior year of high school was a bleak, discouraging time indeed. It seemed as if everything converged together to make my life sad and difficult. I started the school year while still recovering from a serious illness, during which my weight had dropped to 80 pounds. My mother’s neuromuscular disease progressed to the frightening […]
This post is an edited version of my comments to a recent Facebook discussion of the movie. I just watched the movie last night. Yes, it seemed well done and compelling, and it filled me with nostalgia, but there were some areas where I wish they had been more accurate. I’m not sure why they […]
Summer camp — and also winter camp, but to a lesser extent — became a huge part of my life beginning after 8th grade. My father had joined some of his pastor friends to organize dynamic youth camps for young people and these men, as well as friendships I made, had a powerful impact on […]
The year that I was 13 was a significant year indeed. (See the two blog posts before this one.) I came back from a summer in Europe to my father’s new pastorate, which meant seemingly everything in my life had changed. Returning to America after spending time in Germany had felt disorienting before, but now […]
Ah, but Gandhi was hardly a Christian, some might point out. His ideas of prayer and our ideas should be fundamentally very different. Aren’t we praying to entirely different Beings? I’m reminded of another Gandhi quote:
And then there is a Bible quote:
Adventures in prayer 