Category The hole in our gospel

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 humanity, and we’ve sometimes felt buried by the crushing world-wide need. Consequently, Richard Stearns wisely…

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 the leading dynamics that proliferate the devastating plight of poverty in our world. If you’re…

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 Dynamite—Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Emperor who nearly conquered the world). Napoleon rightly understood that hope…

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. Stearns used to help us visualize the statistics. When one jetliner crashes, killing hundreds, it…