Easter weekend is a crazy time of family events, egg hunts, candy, traveling, and church functions. However, for Cornell University, Easter weekend is focused on community, worship, service and a 48-hour prayer tent, serving over 2,000 people. These events were put...

One of my favorite spots in Texas is Pedernales Falls State Park with its falls and rushing water.  I have always been fascinated by flowing water, the sound of it thrashing through crevices or smoothly flowing around a small obstruction. ...

There Goes Thomas Asking Questions Again! The Gospel reading for the Fourth Friday of the Easter season has one of my favorite disciples in it: our friend, doubting Thomas. Now, this is still earlier in the Gospel of John, so...

“Here, I’ll hold the football and you run up and kick it.” “Okay here I go,” a small boy starts running, and as he is about to kick the football, it’s pulled right before he’s able to kick it. He’s...

Around forty college campuses across the country united for prayer, worship and sharing their faith, during Rez Week, March 28th through April 1st.  The aim was to “make Jesus the most talked about person on college campuses”. “It’s one event,...

The day after Easter, U ARISE launched forty days of prayer over Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.  Our daily prayer spans the forty days that Christ resurrected until the day he ascended. The Bible tells us that He...

My local rugby team here in Austin runs a “chat” thread on Facebook..  The other day, one of my mates raised the question: “Is Easter Over?”  I must confess that this is not the typical type of posting that ends...

One of my co-workers has pointed out that I’ve caught the “unity bug”.  I caught it as a senior at Cornell University, sitting beside my Jewish friend along with 600 Christians and non-Christians in the arts quad for an inter-fellowship...