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 | 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...
by Kent | May 11, 2011 | Faith, Featured Entries, Haiti, Uncategorized, Writing
Here are four recent-ish interviews. They’re each excellent shows/websites/radio shows, and I really enjoyed the chance to talk with them: 1. On “100 Huntley Street,” a TV show in Canada: 2. Interview on a ReadTheSpirit.com: “Japan & Rob...
by Kent | Apr 18, 2011 | Featured Entries, Haiti, International Development and Missions, Uncategorized, Writing
[Also on Huffington Post:] I just watched the “60 Minutes” expose on Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea. It felt like a punch in the gut, even if it’s of the too familiar heroes-come-crashing-down variety. It must have felt like a punch to...
