The scandals currently engulfing the IRS, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Justice Department and other government agencies have something in common: information.Who has certain information and for what purpose? How should they be able to obtain it? What should they know and when should they know it? And so on. “Big Data” offers enormous power to […]
We hauled the old kitchen table out to the curb the other day.My wife found another table she liked at a yard sale. The old one was battered and beat up, so it had to go […]
It’s graduation season, when bright young students must endure one final, mind-numbing lecture before collecting their degrees: the commencement address. This speech seldom contains advice you can actually use. The speaker often receives a genero […]
Amid the tsunami of sympathy expressed after the Boston Marathon attack, a photo making the rounds online caught my eye. It showed a group of young men and boys standing in front of what appeared to be a bombed-out building in a town in Syria. They held a b […]
(PHOTO) SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS—In a Cairo neighborhood, a child walks by an Egyptian flag painted on a wall — with apparent symbols of a Muslim crescent and Christian cross added. As the often-violent struggle for freedom continues in Egypt and other countries, larger demographi […]
CONCHUCOS QUECHUA OF PERU (cohn-CHOO-cohs KEH-choo-ah) - "Please pray for the district of Llama. During a research project last year, our Ancash Quechua Team identified that district as having no known evangelical presence. Due to the remoteness of the area, prior church-planting efforts had been abandoned. Please also pray for our team as we make plans […]
ORAL PEOPLES STRATEGY: WEST AFRICA - "We praise God for how He is using our Oral Peoples Strategy Team in training national believers! One of our team members was able to go and train a group of leaders using stories from the Book of Mark. We received news that one of those leaders invited 35 churches in his association to join him for a three-day story […]
We just received word that an elder in a rural area, who has been a believer for some time, was beaten for his faith. He is now in the hospital looking at possible surgery. Pray for his healing, for his encouragement, for his family who were behind what happened, and for the encouragement of the […] […]
“After arriving to our ‘Big City’ late Friday night, we were exhausted but were so thankful to be back so close to home. We were, however, awakened Saturday morning by a phone call from the owner of the home we are renting. We were told that our doors were open. Not good. After rushing back […] […]