Recovering Identity: A Sign of Restoration

One of the most compelling projects managed by our community, Word Made Flesh, is a small business initiative called Sari Bari. Sari Bari’s website states: Sari Bari, a business initiative, seeks the freedom and restoration of Kolkata’s red-light areas through dignity-giving employment opportunities for women affected by the sex trade. The name “Sari Bari” comes [...]

Betweem two seasons

On Friday, two men died. One was Matthew Warren, the 27 year-old son of Pastor Rick Warren. Matthew died by suicide after years of struggling with severe depression. The other was David Kuo, 44, a gifted writer who worked in the White House during the Bush administration. He was a husband and father of four. [...]

Union of life,work and marriage

People often ask, “What’s it like working with your spouse?” My usual response is that working with my husband is easy; it’s living with my business partner that’s hard. We started out as independent of one another as any two married people can be. José was, and still is, a designer—100% creative. Combine that with [...]

Compete or Collaborate

Traditional entrepreneurial thought revolves around the idea of competition, capitalism, and self-exaltation. Success is determined by money in the bank, power, influence, and material possession. We are taught to look out for ourselves and always put the interest of our mission first. It is with this attitude, we are told, that we will truly achieve [...]

When Faith meets Fashion

Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs and Lavinia Brennan are not what I’d expected. They are friends of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and now list the likes of supermodel Kate Moss and film star Demi Moore among the clients of their ethical fashion label Beulah, which in less than two years has captured the media’s [...]

Why Do Movies Influence Christian Youth More Than the Bible?

  Recently, Bob Moffitt, the co-Founder of the Disciple Nations Alliance, sent us an article by Phil Burgess and Mike Metzger titled Sharing God’s Big Story – How the Arts Give Meaning. Burgess is an educator, writer, and businessman, and a frequent speaker and media commentator on political, business, and cultural issues. Metzger is president [...]

Just Because They’re Girls: Evil Worse than the Slave Trade & the Holocaust

  In a dark dungeon I stood with a broken heart on centuries-old dry excrement. I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a transshipping point for African captives in the British Atlantic slave trade. In each dungeon, hundreds of slaves were so tightly packed that these desperate humans could only stand day and [...]

Aid that Increases Poverty? A Case Study in Unintended Consequences

Papuans were totally self-sufficient for thousands of years so it is a difficult task to convince them that they are hopeless and helpless. But in the last decade well-intentioned outsiders have made significant headway. The Papuans, who viewed themselves as “the people”–strong, free, brave and capable–are becoming dependent on government, mission, and aid organizations. Beliefs [...]

What Steve Jobs Taught Us About Beauty

My friends know that, for good or ill, I am neither technically oriented nor have much appreciation of pop music. Yet I was very interested when a friend recently showed me a tribute to Steve Jobs from Bono. I do know that Apple computer owners from the very beginning have loved their machines and were loyal [...]

Only God Transforms; Only God Deserves the Glory

“Transformation” is a current hot topic in the church and in missiological circles. In general Christian usage, the concept reflects a movement from darkness to light – from individual and societal brokenness caused by sin toward the healing of that brokenness. This healing expresses itself in the relative presence of God’s Shalom – relative to [...]

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