The Trekking Thinker

Musing life and events from around the globe.

a man decides to go for a walk.

Steve returns home — April 1,1983, a man decides to go for a walk. Around the world. — Steve Newman, 28, a freelance journalist, left his house in the town of Bethel, Ohio for a 4-year journey that saw him getting attacked twice by armed bandits, pelted with stones by students in India who thought…


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How to Respond When at War

Several years ago I took a workshop on resilience. It was facilitated by a European certified crisis management specialist and to this day it is probably one of the best courses I’ve ever taken. The facilitator stated only 10% of people who go through traumatic experiences ever overcome and get post-traumatic growth. 10%. Those in…

Racism in the Western Christian Church

How did we get here? Was it because of fear? Ignorance? Unthought out bias? Or conscious racism? The word racism in the West, especially in the United States, is misused constantly. Racism is “the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.”…

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