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This blog was originally published on January 25, 2021 ‘Because we are vulnerable, we can be brave.’ Josef Pieper ‘Inner healing’ tends...

Note: This blog was originally published on July 13th, 2023. After I spoke to one of my children about why I take pains (and risk causing...

‘When Lot hesitated, the angelic men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and led them safely out of the city,...

I met a cool woman from Mumbai at our last India training who introduced herself as a grateful member of ‘Dean’s group’. Soon after, a...

‘I’m ‘gay’ and I want to be healed.’ These were the words I pronounced when I went for prayer after my first service at my Vineyard...

‘Ambiguity isn’t compassion. It’s poison with a smile.’ Christopher Yuan (click here to access his The Holy Sexuality Project )   My alma...

‘The desert…will blossom’ (Is. 35:1).   Between a garden profuse with exotically colored peonies and a houseful of saints celebrating...

Amanda and Rich invited us into their relationship last year when they married. Today they update us on their life together. Looking...

The best-kept secret of Pope Francis’ papacy? Robust chastity, blazing in sinner’s sick of filth and on fire for the One who forgave and...

‘Any community based on a shared injury will not set people free. Integration—wholeness—must involve otherness.’ Rediscovering Our Lost...

‘God endows our bodily longing for communion with His reordering Presence. There lies our hope for wholeness, for becoming an integrated...

While the Midwest froze, Desert Stream glimpsed an early Spring at our Living Waters Training in London last week. Seeds sown and tended...

‘As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit. Return to your fortress, O...

Tended by Jesus, chastity is fire in the fireplace: a controlled burn that heats up a cold house, eases up for tenderness, stays true to...

Ania and I just celebrated our second wedding anniversary on December 17. Freed (respectively) from the domination of sexual abuse and...

A friend of mine in a hard relationship approached me, cast down. As he looked up, I saw moist eyes and from them, a small stream (in the...

Weird reunion. Annette’s older ‘gay’-identified brother John, unraveling in San Francisco, needed family. His friends had died or given...

The US Supreme Court just finished oral arguments concerning Tennessee’s statewide ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for...

I was stressed out anyway, but the new book by theologians Richard and Christopher Hayes (father and son) on homosexuality set me off (...

Quick to Listen, Slow to Speak  ‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17).   Andy has described our family as bombastic; I prefer...