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Summer Institute ended very well last week (see the shots below – and also follow the SI blog). It was great to have a group of key leaders from the Great Lakes Region (first two photos, below) in a four […]
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Friends, as 150 participants and 20 faculty gathered here yesterday for our second annual 5-day Duke Summer Institute, from 30 states and 7 countries, I appreciate your ongoing prayers for me, Chris, our incredible Center team, all the […]
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Sixteen years ago today (May 10, 1994) Nelson Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa. Listen to his inauguration speech: As I think about this event, I think about Mandela’s freedom struggles, and […]
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What irony that I would read Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove’s new book The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture on a plane and between flights in an airport. Returning from Portland, Maine, from a one day […]
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Over this past weekend, I was in Omaha for the Word Made Flesh Board Meeting, where we marked and celebrated a significant transition in the leadership of the 17 year old ministry among the poor in the world. Chris […]
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I remember when a priest friend of mine from North Carolina came back from his first visit to Uganda. He talked about his experience going to mass in a parish in Uganda. The service was very lively and […]