A few years ago I was looking at pictures from a Fourth of July picnic with my family. I came across a shot of my children seated with a man with his back to the camera. The man was clearly balding. “Who is that?” I wondered out loud, suspicious of any man getting that...
Responding to Pain with Only $1.75
Last week as Jonathan, Dan, Vitol, and I returned to Port-au-Prince after time visiting HOPE’s work in Miragoane, Haiti, we were stopped at a Haitian roadblock. The community had been promised electricity, but it never came. So in protest, the community blocked the road. My flight out was later that evening, and as we...
NPR: Not Our Normal Audience
I recently had two great opportunities to talk about HOPE’s work on NPR member stations, WHYY Radio, based in Philadelphia, and witf, based in Harrisburg. NPR is not my regular venue, and I was thrilled with the opportunity to talk about HOPE in this setting. I am used to speaking at churches, Christian business conferences,...