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Okay, the first person who can correctly say why this photo is significant, on this day, wins a free book. Here is a hint, today is Bastille Day. Have fun! ••••POSTED LATER*****BUT YOU CAN STILL WIN. READ ON****** We have a winner. Joanna gets the Yellow Jersey, and a copy of A Million Miles. The answer: In todays running of The Tour de France, cyclists were not allowed to wear radios. Race organizers did this to make the race more exciting. There will be two stages in which radios are not allowed. Most riders don’t think it’s a big deal, but in the absence of controversy, controversy is made up. This rider is “protesting” the ban. If you aren’t paying attention to the tour, this is, perhaps, the most fascinating race in TDF history. Team Astana boasts three potential winners in Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador and, of course Lance Armstrong. I’m pulling for Lance, but it’s honestly hard not to pull for Levi, who is an awesome rider who has supported many other winners. The reason this is so exciting is a team will normally have one potential winner, and a supporting cast to get him through the race safe [...]

Thank you to everybody who donated through our Fathers Day Campaign. By now, you or your fathers should have received your packages. Because of you, we increased our monthly recurring donations by 20%. And because of you, several more church programs will be created through The Mentoring Project and those programs will mentor many, many more young men growing up without fathers. Our communications director will keep you posted via your e-mail. We are very grateful for our partnership with you to answer the crisis of fatherlessness in America. On both Saturday night and Sunday morning, I will be speaking at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. Oak Hills is Max Lucado’s church, and I’m looking forward to being with both Max and Randy Frazee and am honored to be able to visit with their people on Fathers Day. You can find out more on the church’s website, or you can watch the service live by clicking the live link on the church’s website. Dr. John Sowers is representing The Mentoring Project at the White House for their Fathers-Day Activities. The President is devoting a considerable amount of his time to talk about the importance of responsible fatherhood, and to [...]

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For several years now I’ve been asked questions about the emerging church and my feelings about the movement that I am a part of. These questions have always been confusing to me, because I’m not really part of the emerging church. I’m not a pastor, have never been a pastor, and don’t know very much about church or how to do church. I leave church to smarter, more gifted men and women. I honestly don’t think about how people should do church. I have friends who are strongly associated with the emerging church movement, but they will tell you we have never had conversations about church. In fact, they would probably tell you I am completely ignorant about how to do church. I care about writing books. That’s my job. I have no more opinions about how to do church than a plumber. I wrote an essay about it in Blue Like Jazz, but the piece was really from the perspective of the man in the pew, and I’ve never really talked about it since. But I really like my emergent friends. The one thing my very conservative friends and my liberal friends have in common is that they are [...]

We will ship your dad a gift for Fathers Day. Its only a couple weekends away, so sign up today and your Fathers Day shopping will be done! The Mentoring Project is a non-profit based in Portland that resources and equips churches to start and run mentoring programs. Our goal is to recruit ten-thousand mentors through one-thousand church-based programs as an answer to the American crisis of fatherlessness. All donations are tax deductible. Fathers Day Campaign Video #2 from The Mentoring Project on Vimeo.   P.S. Two questions: 1. Which hat looks best? 2. If Trisha and I start a video Podcast in which we answer viewer questions, what questions do you have?