by Kent | Dec 17, 2010 | Featured Entries, Haiti
Last day of school for the year at one of our schools and some of the kids had finished their exams. What better than a kind of dance off? I jumped in. I lost a number of times. I will be practicing…
by Kent | Dec 13, 2010 | Featured Entries, Haiti, International Development and Missions
Flying to Haiti tomorrow. Didn’t think I’d be able to; the airport has been closed because of demonstrations around the election. American Airlines starts flying again tomorrow. Anxious to be there talking and working with friends and colleagues. (There...
by Kent | Dec 6, 2010 | Featured Entries, Uncategorized, Writing
During this past year I wrote my second book, “AFTER SHOCK: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken.” It’s about (alas, putting something into a sentence what you hope necessarily took 40,000 words) stories from Haiti and my own...
by Kent | Dec 6, 2010 | Faith, Featured Entries, Haiti
(Recently written for Huffington Post.) The litany of horrors somehow won’t end: an earthquake kills 230,000; 80 percent of people already living on less than $2 a day; cholera spreading with help from a hurricane and killing 1,000 so far. The stats only hint at...
by Kent | Dec 6, 2010 | Featured Entries, Haiti, Uncategorized, Writing
Earlier this year, as part of the release of this book, there was a chance for six people to win a free trip to Haiti. There were over 80 essay submissions. Most of them were really thoughtful. It was an honor to read them. And then I realized what a dumb idea the...
