Rich Dixon is orienting a new pastor. And reorienting us.

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Our church has a new senior pastor.

He told me he’d heard something about a bike ride, and he asked, “What’s the Freedom Tour about?”

It would be easy to say it’s about supporting 22 kids in a Home of Hope, providing the nutrition and shelter and safety and freedom they need to grow into healthy, strong men and women. And, of course, that’s part of it.

But it’s bigger and more complex than that, and also a good deal...