When my wife, Rochelle, and I went grocery shopping this week, we spent 10 minutes in the bread section. We saw white bread, brown bread, flax bread, cheese bread, cheese wraps, sun-dried tomato wraps, poppy seed bagels, sesame seed bagels, poppy and sesame seed bagels, whole wheat pitas, English muffins, rolls, naan, injara and a hundred other bread possibilities. We were paralyzed by choice. Earlier this year we were living in Harare, Zimbabwe. At lunch time, we would often walk to Fife Spar─one of the country’s largest grocery stores─to hunt for bread. Sometimes there … (More)

The seventh World Christian Gathering of Indigenous People held many "holy moments" for us as delegates. One such moment was when we traveled across the Sea of Galilee in a wooden boat to the village of Capernaum. In this village was an ancient synagogue that remains standing. As we entered the synagogue in Capernaum, a sense of reverence fell upon us. Standing in a place where Jesus had taught so many years ago was an experience that goes beyond words. The sense of his presence with us was astonishing. Gathering together, a young woman from Hawaii began to sing a beautiful … (More)

The movie August Rush is about a musical prodigy, Evan, who was given up for adoption as a baby. Evan grows up in a group home where he combats the idea that his parents have forgotten about him. He endeavours to find his parents and leaves the group home for the streets in search of the ones “who gave him the music.” As he struggles on the streets, a young boy befriends him and brings him to his street home in a condemned theater. The “father” in charge teaches the children music so they can busk on the streets for him. Young Evan has never played music but hears it … (More)