Surprisingly Competent

Every once in a while we think someone left the floodlight on in the backyard, so I look outside the window to discover the floodlight isn’t on – the moonlight is! It’s one of those really impressive full-moon nights. The most beautiful one that my...

When It’s Dark All the Time

The lady in the airplane seat next to me was from Norway. And I knew she had experienced something I needed to know about – winter months with very long nights and summer months with very long days. With our Native American team planning some major summer...

Love Through a Telephoto Lens

We were shooting some video footage of a group of teenagers and they were kind of surprised when they saw the result on a TV screen. We were seated in a little cluster on the floor discussing various youth issues, and what surprised them was the fact that when they...

Personally Bankrupt, Spiritually Rich

Funny things happen when church youth groups go on summer missions trips. Suddenly these comfortable American kids are facing a totally unfamiliar situation, maybe for the first time in their lives! There’s money they don’t quite understand. There’s...

No Turf In His Kingdom

Ahhh, Nantucket! My wife and I had some wonderful, romantic times on that picturesque little island 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. The little village of Nantucket is just full of colonial charm. And everywhere you look you find reminders of its...