by Kent | Oct 19, 2012 | Faith, Featured Entries, Haiti, International Development and Missions, Uncategorized
(First on Huffington Post.) “Fred,” I ask in Creole last Friday in Port-au-Prince, “do you mind giving us a quick campus tour before we sit to talk?” I work with a nonprofit focused on education in Haiti, and Fred is one of twenty-five Haitian seminary students we...
by Kent | Apr 26, 2012 | Faith, Featured Entries, International Development and Missions
How should we tell stories about people we’re trying to help? Individuals, churches, missionaries, and nonprofit groups should ask this regularly. The answer is inextricably bound to the very justice we’re trying to promote. The question now has a perfect...
by Kent | Mar 27, 2012 | Faith, Featured Entries
“From dust you were formed, to dust you shall return.” Those are the Ash Wednesday words. Ashes were rubbed in a cross on my forehead. Maybe on yours too. I gave up soda for Lent. The weeks leading up were busy. Ash Wednesday was here; I hadn’t given...
by Kent | Jan 11, 2012 | Featured Entries, Haiti
My thoughts, prayers, and work, my sadness and hope, are with people in Haiti today. I’ll be there all next week. A few links while reflecting on the earthquake and the two years since: 1. Today I did a “two years later” interview on Patheos that is...
by Kent | Jan 4, 2012 | Featured Entries, Haiti, International Development and Missions
Just wrote a blog for InterVarsity looking back on their Urbana conference, which I attended with two friends from Haiti just two weeks before the earthquake two years ago. (A theme of twos in that previous sentence.) Thinking back on that event, what has happened...
