Essays

Finally, the good news

“It is possible to change the world’s realities.”[1] These hope-filled words from Richard Stearns aptly summarize this week’s chapter from the The Hole In Our…

There are solutions

Up to this point, The Hole in our Gospel has been terribly overwhelming. We’ve been moved by statistics, we’ve agonized over the images of suffering…

Eating Summer

Have you started yet? My brother, Cheyenne, recently posted a picture of himself swimming up out of a pool with his mouth opened wide for…

Let’s dig a well!

Let’s fund the digging of a well! This week’s chapter in The Hole in Our Gospel identified malnutrition, lack of clean water, and disease as…

Duck Feathers and Rhino Skin

You’ll never survive in leadership unless you have both of them. Do you remember what “preening” is? Ducks have oil glands under their wings and…

Cheyenne’s new CD!!!

Cheyenne’s new CD, I’m Blue Skies, is now available and it is fantastic!!!! You can listen to samples and purchase it from iTunes, or you…

Dealers in Hope

The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program—Week Thirteen.” Chapter Eleven: Caught in the web Leaders must be dealers in hope. That’s what Napoleon said (not Napoleon…

Your new favorite author

For this week’s The Hole in our Gospel posting Jessica and I want to introduce you to someone who will quite possibly become one of…

God and Golden Spoon

Last week I had one of my best prayer times of this whole year—and I wasn’t even praying. God told me to take Amber and…

100 Crashing Jetliners

The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program—Week Eleven  Chapter Nine: One Hundred Crashing Jetliners “One Hundred Jetliners Crash, Killing 26,500.” That’s the context that Mr.…