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...
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 | 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 | 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...
