I am an advocacy journalist for Living Water International, and write stories about lives and communities that have been transformed by clean water and the gospel of Jesus Christ. I occasionally travel on assignment to random corners of Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Originally from Houston, Texas, I studied history and political science before tackling two years of postgraduate work in Christian Spirituality and Culture. I live with my best friend (and wife) Maridyth in Mittersill, Austria. For the better part of six years, I've worshiped, worked, and played with a community of Christ-followers here, learning and writing about the radical living-out of the Kingdom of God in today's culture.

I want to see communities transformed - both in the developing world, and in the cities, suburbs, and countrysides of the developed West. I want to see people wake up to the injustice, oppression, and poverty around the world and do something about it - not just with their weekends and their money, but with their everyday coices and lifestyles. I dream of seeing communities helping communities be transformed by the love of God.

"A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life's roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Random corners of Africa (mostly east), south Asia; all over Europe (I do live here, after all), most of the States.

English, German, snatches of a half-dozen others.