We have been told from the pulpit that only men have been called to the leadership positions of the church. Uncovered truths and new translations have changed this perspective.
One of the most rewarding experiences in life is to teach and watch a mind come alive and be changed. I have enjoyed the classroom, and now find the venue of writing equally fulfilling.
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After a long and varied career in the ministry, most of those years as a missionary with a gripping commitment to be a change-agent through teaching, I have found the avenue of writing as fulfilling as anything I have ever done.
Through my studies at Fuller Theological Seminary's School of International Studies and the many years side by side with insightful and colorful men in the jungle highlands of Papua New Guinea whose worldview had room to embrace me and teach me, I found my voice.
I am indebted to men of academic stature for their skillful instruction and guidance, but I am equally indebted to those men whose stature of simple faith emboldened mine. What I write is not my own. The words have been authored deep within me by others.
In this stage of my life, I find the theme of grace a relentless shadow I cannot shake. The word must never be allowed to melt into virtual meaningless by its casual misuse in a world that can no longer recognize it. Nothing is more powerful than to be a captive of grace, to daily discover the depth and breadth of it.
I am on a bold and beautiful journey of grace, and I have no choice but to share it.
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