by Kent | Oct 9, 2016 | Featured Entries
It’s a strange experience when a storm passes in life. If spared, we sigh with relief when we go out the front door after Hurricane Matthew’s winds die down, or come back into town from evacuating to see that the full brunt narrowly missed our town. After this storm...
by Kent | Apr 27, 2016 | Featured Entries
My early experience with Slow Kingdom Coming is that it will be a great book for discussion. I’ve had the chance to do seminars of the book already with adult Sunday School classes, with mission committees, and with university students. Each time was a great...
by Kent | Jun 21, 2015 | Featured Entries
Hi, friends. Quick note to state the obvious: I’ve been very quiet on here for the past, well, long time. I didn’t stop writing though. I was working on a new book. The first draft is done and I’ll be finishing revisions over the next couple of...
by Kent | Oct 3, 2013 | Featured Entries, Writing
I like exploring at extremes, whether it’s trying to push my own limits or understanding someone else’s. A few recent thoughts: In the spring I traveled to Bangkok to write about people living and working in slums around the world. I wrote a cover story...
by Kent | Oct 2, 2013 | Featured Entries, Haiti
Just before the earthquake, Père, the grandfather of the Woshdlo family I first lived with in Haiti, pulled me aside to tell me about the latest project he was starting. As usual he was barefoot, in tattered slacks and a partly shredded button-down shirt that he wears...
by Kent | Sep 3, 2013 | Faith, Featured Entries, International Development and Missions
Note: In March I traveled to Bangkok to write about the “slums of the earth” for Christianity Today. This month, that story is their cover. Here is a small excerpt from it: For the first time in history, one of every two people lives in a city. Some 860...
