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...
by Kent | Dec 19, 2011 | Faith, Featured Entries, Haiti
(Wrote this for InterVarsity’s blog.) I’ve never donned a beard or red suit for Christmas. So far that’s my personal line. But something happens when you have kids. Categories of cool, kitsch, hip, tacky, etc., no longer matter much. It’s a short distance from...
by Kent | Aug 30, 2011 | Featured Entries, Haiti, International Development and Missions
My daughter attended her first day of kindergarten today. A poignant milestone dressed up in an exceptionally cute plaid jumper. My wife and I thought we were pretty cool with it. Our daughter had attended preschool, after all, so this wasn’t a major logistical...
by Kent | Aug 2, 2011 | Featured Entries, Writing
Just read Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends with my five-year-old daughter. Somehow I’d never read his poems before, not as a kid or adult. What a delight. Look forward to reading more with my kids (though I did skip a poem now and then)....
by Kent | Jul 28, 2011 | Featured Entries, Writing
The Nervous Breakdown invited me to do one of their “self interviews.” I like their online magazine, but was dreading this a bit. Felt like it would take, well, effort. Because in regular interviews, you don’t have to take the creative initiative....
by Kent | Jul 20, 2011 | Faith, Featured Entries, Haiti, International Development and Missions, Uncategorized
The only thing worse than a book reviewer who hasn’t read the book is one who pretends to have done so. I was kindly asked by Patheos’s Book Club to write this post, though I haven’t read Radical Together. I’m in Haiti so wouldn’t be able to read it...
