About Me
I am first a person whose journey with God and others is the orienting center of my life. I seek to share openly of this halting, faltering discovery of the story of God in everyday living.
I can be contacted personally at earthlytents@comml.imap.cc
After 22 1/2 years as a pastor of a Philadelphia area church, and almost two years in New Zealand at Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand, I am located in Dallas, Texas, as the International Director of ALARM (African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries). ALARM is an organization that seeks to restore communities that have been devastated by tribalism and warfare.
My wife, Naomi, is an amazing person with whom I share my journey. I am blessed with two special children whom I love and admire--Ben, a web designer living in San Francisco Rebekah, our daughter, a singer/actress in Texas.
My passions: reading, popcorn, writing, photography, walking, time with friends and family, thinking about the problem of evil and suffering, peace building and reconciliation, living out the gospel in a postmodern world.
Having read J.K.Rowling's speech I was impressed with her definition of success as well as failure. Or should I say I was left unimpresed due to the familiar verbage. We are bombarded with similiar descriptions of pulling oneself up and realizing ones potential after a season of abysmal disappointing results of one's efforts. I can read the same jargon in Investment Magazines. There was little originality in her remarks. The greatest failure was not Adolf Hitler, or Alexander the Great but the so called Jewish Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth. With his own words he sets himself up. He said, "By myself I can do nothing,...I seek not to please myself but him who sent me." He took the place of subordination when he said, "The Son can do nothing by himself." This flies in the face of the premise of every self help book I have ever read or intend to read.