Alex > Recent Status Updates

”In a way, Jane and Paul had stolen something from their daughter that they could never give back.”

“[The kids at her school] were not like her. They came and went as their parents transferred into and out of Nairobi like migratory birds. She was a chicken that never went anywhere.”

“For a second Jane thought maybe it hadn’t been her back there, not her at all who lifted the baby’s body dutifully up to the camera’s eye. It couldn’t be her who agreed to take this new and delicate things so far away…”

“I realized how little I knew of what makes a true missionary statesman; of a faith that never staggers at the promise of God, no matter how incredible to the natural man its fulfillment seems; of a trust in the Unchanging One, who keeps the heart at rest and unperturbed in a changing world; of a burning love that counts not life dear unto itself, but is expendable for God; and of a vision that is never dimmed.”

“Today’s seas are still subject to the Christ of Galilee.”

“Sociological studies find that committed Christian men make the most loving and engaged husbands and fathers.”

“Surprisingly, research has found that nominal Christian men have the highest rates of divorce and domestic violence. Even higher than secular men.”

“Unless a church teaches doctrines like the Trinity and the incarnation of Christ, their children’s religious experience is formed in a way that is less and less distinctively Christian.”