A native son of Charleston, Justin Hare is a scratch golfer. Good enough to play varsity golf for Duke University — and potentially play on the PGA Tour. His plans, however, began to veer off the rails when his Anglican upbringing took root in high school and God knocked on his door. “I had always considered myself a decent person,” he says. “I tend to be fairly introverted and a hard worker. I made good grades and I wasn’t a big tester of boun daries. In high school, God hel

I think most people tend to believe the far ends of the emotion-scale are despair and joy. Black and white; darkness and light. Of the two, the human soul tends to gravitate to the darkness. Despair is the most accessible and the easiest to feed. As the worries and hardships of life envelope us and the ever-increasing weight of responsibility settles upon our unprepared shoulders, darkness shouts empathy while the light speaks in whispers. It is our nature to view our lives l

When walking the pilgrimage across Northern Spain known as El Camino de Santiago, pilgrims grow intimately familiar with Albergues de Pergrinos, “hostels for pilgrims.” The history of the Albergues stretches back to the Middle Ages, when residents along the way offered aid, comfort, shelter, and mercies to the pilgrims. (Believe me, if you’re walking the Camino wearing sandals and rags, you’re gonna need aid, comfort, shelter and a whole lotta mercies). Churches ran many of t

When Graham Schuyler arrived in Myrtle Beach, it was a bittersweet event. He and his wife left what he describes as the “perfect ministry,” serving as a high school football chaplain at a huge 5A school and connecting with young people all around Knoxville. The ministry was a natural fit, as he simply followed the path the Lord prepared for him and utilized his unique gift of evangelism through personal relationships. His arrival in Myrtle Beach was to begin serving as the yo