Accompany, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, Network, Values, Youth
David kicked off the University of Oxford presentation with this photo. The doctoral researchers responded: Rural poverty. A crumbling village. A young boy. We once looked through that lens, too. But we see with new eyes now. We see through the eyes of two friends,...
Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, SE Asia, Values
It’s Giving Tuesday, a time to advocate and practice radical generosity. Radical generosity is “the concept that the suffering of others should be as intolerable to us as our own suffering.” In other words, to love your neighbor as yourself. In the numbing world of...
A Dream, Accompany, Hard Place, Values
She woke with a start in the dead of night, prompted by an unrelenting urging: “Grab your kids. Take your ID. Flee your house! NOW!” She stumbled down the stairs, three little kids in tow., out of their highrise onto the street. Adecade of war had not...
Hard Place, Middle East, Values
“Where is he?” David muttered, pacing and jittery. “He’s two hours overdue.” Our visionary friend was traversing conflict zones, but he’d never been this late. Then the phone rang. David lunged for it. His face projected relief,...
Hard Place, Middle East, Values
I couldn’t help it. I burst into tears. Exactly a year ago in Iraq, our dreamer had shared the cruel facts filtering out. But now was the final blow. Their homes had been ransacked. And occupied by fighters. Their belongings dumped into the street. Two months before...
