Indy Bikehiker

Trying to get my head and heart together back in Indy after two weeks in KenyaThe Great Rift Valley takes my breath away even today. This was thebackdrop of much of our 600-mile cycling tour of Kenya this month.It's been a whirlwind of a month, so far; like no May I've ever experienced. I return fro

I take a few minutes in the Kenyan highlands to update friends andsupporters at home on the progress of Bike Kenya 2012. Amazing:in the heart of rural Kenya and immediately connected globally.We are well on our way on bicycles in Kenya. This two-week, 600-mile journey has thus far taken us from Nair

On May 6, our team heads for Kenya--and our preparations become a lived experienceWell, I’ve done just about everything I can to get myself and eight other team members ready to pedal 600 miles in Kenya.  We board international flights on May 6 (next Sunday), arrive in Nairobi on the evening of May

"There is nothing inevitable or divinely willed about social and economic inequality. [Our faith] rejects the almost universal belief in antiquity...that hierarchy and divisions of class are written into the structure of society.  What human beings have created, human beings can rectify."Greatness,

In observance of Earth Day, here are 10 ways to bring faith and environmental responsibility together beyond this dayThe following suggestions are offered by Dr. Howard Snyder of Asbury Seminary from an essay titled “Salvation Means Creation Healed” (now an incredible book by the same title):1. STUD

Offering hospitality to those whom society rejects is both subversive and healingBooks like Making Room by Christine Pohl don't let me go very easily. I read it first well over a decade ago, but its principles and practices are still working on me.In my inductive way of reading the Bible and my mean

As a Christian, I carefully distinguish political engagement from partisan politics.The Good News of Jesus is political--profoundly so. The politics of Jesus are pointed. Jesus has something powerful to say about wealth, poverty, justice, the value of life, our regard for aliens and strangers, our r

We must strain to see, nurture and celebrate the wonder we experience in our loved onesThinking of our family, with its particularities and peculiarities, with each one's uniqueness and struggles and possibilities, with the dynamic of life that we share--gathering and scattering, coming and going, I

Wendell Berry coined this phrase in his poignant "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" The phrase "practice resurrection" comes from this poem by Wendell Berry. I love the phrase; it is pregnant with meaning and challenge and hope. Its context in "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" b