Well, I am certainly missing the lifestyle we enjoyed in Charagua, Bolivia that allowed me to read and write so prolifically. These days I struggle just to find balance between work, more work, family and community. Welcome home to the United States and North American culture! I am now working in the technology department for…
Tag: Bolivia
Immigration and Incarnation
This is an article I wrote recently for Shalom Connections, a newsletter for the Shalom Missions Communities. It's a good summary and synthesis of our time in Bolivia. If it is about the journey and not the destination, then our family has certainly been in the midst of it for the past year or so.…
Living With Less in the Land of More
Many are reflecting on the stuff we own and how it owns us in this season of shopping and gift-giving. I read an excellent article recently about one family's journey with their relationship to their stuff (Stuffed to the gills: How crap took over my life—and how I intend to take it back). So, I…
Living in Limbo
I'm not unemployed or underemployed like some of the people protesting at various Occupy gatherings across the US, but I am in limbo. When we were deported from Bolivia, I thought our time at home would be a vacation while we visited family and waited to hear from MCC and figure out what to do…
Coveting, Control and Captivity (Leviticus 25)
You can search this site for "jubilee", "leviticus 25" and "sabbath" to read more about the connections I make between Sabbath practices, ecology, economics, Jesus and Isaiah. To find something fresh to say about this central passage in the biblical narrative I turn to one of my favorite scholars. The text of Leviticus 25 asserts…
