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One of the most irritating things about living in a dormitory was the “All Call”.  I did not happen often in my experience but I always had the same reaction. Why are they calling everybody?  Can’t they just call on the people that really need to know this? I’m busy,...

Late in the afternoon on the first day of the week at Gracepoint eight representatives of the faith community in our corner of the world made the first cut in the earth that will support our new worship center. It occurs to me that this is the intersection of a great...

I was reminded recently of the horrors of the Rwandan genocide. I know that it was several years ago but something in this amazing woman’s story hit me deeply. She said that before people began murdering their neighbors in the most vicious ways their had been a...

Having just returned from Israel the educational realities of travel have struck me again. A trip like this brings texture to the two dimensional, black and white photos most of us create when we read the text of the Bible. We visited the church of the Nativity filled...