Numbers Game

20. Million. Can you even begin to wrap your mind around that? When I first read these words on International Justice Mission’s Website, I couldn’t grasp the numbers.

Imago Dei: Preserving God’s image in Cambodia

Holland Prior is an ordained pastor with the Wesleyan Church and a graduate of Azusa Pacific University. She also received a Master of Divinity degree from APU. Holland was one of my team leaders on a mission trip to New Orleans in the summer of 2008. She traveled to Cambodia from February 12-22. Before she left, I talked to her about the coming journey.

Justice Defined

Justice. It’s a word denoting the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, and equity. History is littered with attempts to define it philosophically, pragmatically, existentially and scientifically. Every page of world history tells a story of justice or injustice, intertwined with the story of civilization.

Dreams Renewed

It’s a warning for our times on everything from war to racial equality. Sure, the Cold War is no longer a threat, and there are some outdated words and references, but it is relevant and vital piece of writing for the state of our world today.

My Couch Smells Like Joy

My couch smells like joy.
Take a deep breath. Sniff down deep under the layers of Febreeze, and day-old potato chips and you can smell it.
OK, if we had really had scratch and sniff going on, it would actually smell like unwashed bodies and possibly five-day-old alcohol breath.
But to me, and those I work with, [...]

Faith, Hope And NOLA

I was born in San Jose, California. But I came alive in New Orleans.
Her story cannot be forgotten, and her voice must never be silenced.
She struts and sings, dances and screams for help.
Purple, green and gold, my love is beautiful and bold
and she’s drowning on August Twenty-Ninth, Two-Thousand and Five.

Eastern Poetry

Poet Brianna Tongen presents four poems inspired by her travels working with the poor in India and Myanmar.

Love is an action

Billy Scanlan has been traveling in Southeast Asia, recording what he sees in photos and words. For more of Billy’s work, visit his blog A Context for Hope.
With a little love and care, even the darkest corners of the world can become spectacles of hope.
Svey Pak, Cambodia, was one of those dark corners, where [...]

Putting a Face on the Faceless

When Sarah Freeman called to tell her friend Stephen Christian about her mission trip to Haiti, she was just asking for prayer.

Twenty-four hours later, Christian, who is the lead singer of the rock band Anberlin, called Freeman back to let her know he was going too, and bringing friends along with him.

Beauty company lends a hand

The Body Shop has come out with a line of products to help fund the fight against sex trafficking. 100% of the proceeds from their special hand cream and canvas bags will go to Somaly Mam and ECPAT, two organizations that are working to end the sex slave trade. Rarely do big businesses donate the [...]