How To (and Not To) Respond to the Current Crisis in the Middle East

My heart is heavy.    Every day for the past week, every social media outlet has told their version of the current uprising stretching across the Middle East (Egypt, Libya, Yemen) .  Whether it’s pictures of Embassy’s burned to the ground, rioting citizens or highly politicized comics, the surge of content has been anything but “feel-good” and …

Glimpses of a New Narrative

This blog was originally posted over at The House Studio (publisher of Thin Places) a couple days ago.   We live in the downtown neighborhood of Golden Hill in San Diego.  It is a place that contains a multitude of narratives.  At times they are warring narratives, other times they are complementary narratives and still …

A Response to My Article “End Times and Global Immersion”

Matt Laidlaw – one of the pastors at Mars Hill in Grand Rapids, Michigan – brings it in response to my recent article in Immerse Journal titled, “End Times and Global Immersion: Developing a Holistic Understanding of the Eschaton.” It was originally posted on Immerse Journal’s site: Going Deeper Still with Jon Huckins’ “End Times …

Just Peacemaking Final Video: Mustard Seeds of Hope

My friend Eliyahu is one of the hero’s we must highlight as advocates for the peace/shalom/salaam of Jesus. He is a Jewish Rabbi and founder of Jerusalem Peacemakers. In the village of Zakarias meeting with Jewish Israeli settler (on far left) and Muslim Palestinian (second from right). The Jewish couple that helped start the Neve …