Sometimes, in my mind’s eye, I like to conceive of what I call Biblical deleted scenes […]
Voices
Voices: Compassion Amid a Scary Journey
Nowadays every flight between McAllen, Texas, and Dallas or Houston carries some Central Americans […]
Wholeness
“Children are to be seen and not heard”
was what I heard, and learned…
Voices: Pastor Fled Assassination Threats, Now Separated from Family
By Abraham Bejarano NORTHRIDGE, CA (June 20, 2018) – For the past five months, the wife and two small children of Venezuelan pastor Adriel Tirado have lived with me while he remains incarcerated in a detention center in Georgia. He […]
Voices: The Lorraine Motel
as i walk toward the balcony where my hero fell […]
Voices: ‘Imagine’ Hard to Watch, Important to See
I wasn’t excited when a friend invited me to watch “I Can Only Imagine.” I thought it was going to be another cheesy […]
Voices: Pastor’s Love for Graham on Display
Like many families throughout America, we watched Billy Graham’s crusades on television […]
Voices: Repetition and the Heart
Lingawe Sarah Singa, a 19-year-old junior at Lycee Vanette, the girls’ high school at Karawa, had died […]
Voices: This Is My Home
In April of 1992 I was brought to the United States of America; I was six months old […]
Voices: Wisdom from a Dying Friend
Sometimes a friendship defies convention, or, at least, makes one […]
Redwood Pastor: ‘My Morning Begins with Mourning’
They come through the door with blankets wrapped around themselves shaking and exhausted […]
Voices: I Wouldn’t Tell This to the Church
Years ago, I had a pastor friend who told me that one of his rules in preaching was never […]