Not too long ago, I had an opportunity to talk with Leroy Barber (LB), co-founder of The VOICES Project, and Aaron Graham (AG), Lead Pastor of The District Church in Washington, D.C., about their ideas on leading an organization, church, or other group toward a deeper, shared understanding of race and reconciliation. I value both highly for their own commitments […]
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I met today with a pastor friend of mine in town. I came away appreciating him all the more. One of the things that frustrates me in life and ministry is the degree to which we don’t shoot straight with people. We don’t ask them what they meant, don’t tell them what we feel, don’t
With the help of Lauren Yoho (who recently graduated from Moody with a jounalism degree) and Tony Querio (who is married to the office administrator Caitlin) we have begun putting out a quarterly in-house news magazine called “FOUR.” Lauren named the magazine after the four words that appear on our logo and represent who we
This week we added two more e-newsletters to the mix. There is a new monthly newsletter for parents and children’s workers in the Antioch Kids program as well as a regular newsletter for the college. In the next couple of weeks we will add another as well… what we are calling a “V-Newlsetter” that spotlights
I’ve been thinking about communication a lot lately. I think that communication is the greatest medicine to relational stress, conflict and misunderstandings. In other words, communication is of grave importance in the spiritual side of life. (And since I think everything is spiritual or affected by the spiritual, it is also important for the physical
Last night my wife and I watched the movie “Akeelah and the Bee.” I loved it! It is the story of an 11 year old girl from the inner city who has a remarkable talent for memorizing words. With the encouragement of her school and with the help of an English Professor she is able
