Here’s something everyone can do to support the kids at the Home of Hope. Some people can’t come to Northern Colorado to ride bikes with us. I get that. But everyone – everyone – can do The HOPE & FREEDOM CHALLENGE. It’s virtual, so you can do it anywhere. People literally all around the world […]

Someone asked why I often use the word “invite” when I talk about how Jesus brought people around him. For example, Jesus “invites” us to serve kids rescued from human trafficking. The point of the question, I think, was that for followers of Jesus things like serving orphans really aren’t optional. And that’s true. Jesus […]

Have you started doing your taxes? It’s a curious process, because it forces us to look back and create sort of a financial snapshot of the previous year. I just completed a similar exercise for the FREEDOM TOUR. It wasn’t about taxes, but creating a sort of year end picture of what 2023 looked like. […]

It seems like the more times I travel around the sun, the more nuance I discover in the world. Most situations don’t lend themselves to the black and white solutions we wish for. As much as we would like a pill for every malady and an answer to every difficult question, more and more it […]

A friend sent a newsletter in which he talked about unfair circumstances. Got me thinking about the source of our notion of fairness. Where did we ever get the idea that circumstances ought to be fair? I don’t really have an answer, other than for me unfair usually means I didn’t get what I expected […]