The wounded healer
When I arrived in Ethiopia in 1986 the country had been impoverished by communism, famine and long-standing poverty. I was trained in community health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and was ready to roll out a comprehensive community health program, working alongside the church. With hindsight now I…
"Why have you stricken us so that we are beyond healing?"
As healers we must face the limits of healing. Life and healing are a gift of God, and yet because of sin, He has set limits. Death itself is a limit to healing. We were created by God as the pinnacle of His creation, not designed to die. Yet human…
Charleston, South Carolina
We all mourn the tragedy in Charleston, where the hatred of one white man for black people turned into murderous rage. Eight African American Christians are dead. As a nation we don’t know how to even think about such an evil act. We are humbled by the forgiving spirit of these…
An Upside down World. Distinguishing between home and mission field no longer makes sense. Christopher J.H. Wright
Chris Wright is the international director of the Langham Partnership. He wrote “The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Intervarsity, 2006). This CT article highlights the changes in Global Christianity, where the “old peripheries are now the center.” He speaks of our “blindness to the ways Western Christianity…