Quadruple Bottom Line: Patience, a Hotel Housecleaner
Patience, a 33-year-old mother of three from Northern Ghana, has been working as a hotel housecleaner for the past four years. “It’s hard work,” she says, …
Quadruple Bottom Line for Brian, a Paramedic
At the beginning of January, I started writing one of five booklets that Discipling Marketplace Leaders is putting together for the ministry. The booklet I’m …
Jesus Needs Donkeys, Not Horses
Donkeys are ordinary, awkward creatures. They are normally used in many parts of Africa as pack animals, for carrying or pulling things. They are sometimes …
A Story of Two Nurses and Two Pastors
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying a book called Work and Worship: Reconnecting our Labor and Liturgy by Matthew Kaemingk and Cory B. Willson. In fact, I like it …
Balance Sheet of Life
At the end of the year, many of us do various assessments on our life. Some of us look only at the last twelve months …
We all have the virus. And we all can have the vaccine!
At our DML Christmas gathering, my colleague, Dr. Phil Walker, shared an analogy of Jesus to the COVID-19 virus. He shared that we all have …
Don’t pray like a widow. Pray like a bride.
Don’t pray like a widow. Pray like a bride. My Tante Janie’s pastor said these words and I have to admit that they struck deep. …
Thanking God for peculiar things…
“I thank God for the ability to toilet,” one of our leaders from Nigeria said on a recent prayer call. Immediately most of us smiled, …
Nehemiah 6: Are you a firefighter?
One might say that we live in a time of fear: Fear of the pandemic and its health (physical and mental), social, or economic effects. …
Shalom: Vigorous Well-Being and Abundant Flourishing
Oscar Romero, in The Violence of Love, says this, “How beautiful will be the day when all the baptized understand their work, their job, is …