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Surprise

Recently I was talking to a couple of guys, one a believer and the other not yet, on the why of missions in a world of vying belief systems. I’m sure you’ve had similar conversations when people discover you’re a missionary. It struck me again at how a faith-in-God answer can simultaneously sound normal and absurd. To the one, missions are a natural response to one’s faith in Jesus… Continue

Choosing Missions ... for My Children



Before I became a parent, my main perspective about raising a missionary family came from my positive experiences in the Philippines. I loved being a missionary kid (MK) and to me, the Philippines was home in every sense of the word. As I became an adult, I realized that not every MK is grateful to have grown up overseas, for reasons as varied as the landscape of loving it. Instead, for them, the only way they would use the word “positive” in the… Continue

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"The Contrarian"

You’d think that a Major League Hall of Famer would, from an insider’s perspective, articulate some unique insight that would allow the rest of us mere mortals to elevate our understanding of baseball and how it is played. Or maybe a World Series winning manager would challenge the status quo on how we understand the actual game strategy itself. Or perhaps a baseball analyst on… Continue