Some people start talking with others about their vision and their passions—and eventually decide to do something together. Some people find they have to get up and move from the place where they are to another, completely different place. Some people find it’s enough for them to write, incessantly, about a particular vision, and create [...]

There is a difference between being busy and lazy, as the famous fable of the far-thinking ant and the shortsighted and apathetic grasshopper tells us. However, there is equally a difference between being busy and productive. To be busy can mean to be industrious—but it can also mean to simply be active at every moment. [...]

At least once a year there is an event which causes us to gasp aloud. An honor killing is a good example: a girl walking alone is attacked and raped by someone from the next village over, and then killed by one of her own family members out of shame. Bad boys aren’t responsible for [...]

Jesus told parables to get his point across. One form of parable that he constantly used was that of a farmer sowing seed. Of course, he wasn’t talking about his disciples being farmers. He once told Peter he would make him into a fisher of men. So we might ask ourselves—in our context, what is [...]

Whatever it is that you’re doing—why are you doing it? Are you using that website because everyone else is (and particularly all the cool people who are in the know)? Are you using that device because others are using it? Is that hobby a waste of time or a true time of rest, relaxation and [...]

What works in the city, may not work in the country. What works with the elderly may not work with the young. What works with Christians may not work with non-Christians. What works with business owners may not work with students. What works with literates may not work with illiterates. What works with Muslims may [...]

Part of the problem with we Christians is this: we spend a lot of time trying to help people solve a problem they don’t know they have—or at worse, don’t believe exists. Some do not believe there is a Heaven (or Hell for that matter). But the vast majority are already believers of one sort [...]

Jesus didn’t say you "won’t be famous,"he or "you won’t be wealthy," or "you won’t be a celebrity." He didn’t ask us to give up something most of us probably wouldn’t have anyway. Nor did he say "people won’t enjoy you" or "people won’t like you." He wasn’t asking us to give up private, personal [...]

This horrific article deserves to be read and meditated over. via The Atlantic. “Lacking boats, planes, or for a while even handcuffs, Guinea-Bissau can do little against the flow of cocaine that moves in from South America and out to Europe.” What would Isaiah have to say about this–where are those who will stand up for [...]

via The China Post. Some pretty amazing statistics: 1 billion people will migrate into Asia’s cities. India has to build the equivalent of Chicago every year to accomodate migrates. 100 new cities from China will join the list of the top 600 urban centers which generate 60% of global GDP in the next decade. These are [...]