Can you see the end of your life? I don’t mean imagining gruesome ends that cause fear and anxiety. But rather to be able to evaluate what kind of life you are living, and if it ended today, what would it really matter that you lived?  Last week in Patna, the capital of the Northern… Read More Can you see the end of your life?

Waiting is so difficult. And living in a society of “instant” everything is only making it harder. Yet “active” waiting is even more difficult. It is so much easier while waiting to be passive, thinking that if anything is to happen, it will fall into our laps. Active waiting means we take the steps we… Read More Active Waiting: Stop and Smell the Flowers

Will the slave trade ever end? I write this post in Cartagena, Colombia, a very beautiful city with a very dark history. For over three centuries Cartagena was one of the primary hubs for the slave trade in the Americas. The old city, once lived in by only Spanish colonists and their slaves, has been… Read More Will the Slave Trade Ever End?

As I write this post from India, the reactions of protest, anger and fear continue here on news of a third attack in the last two weeks on an Indian immigrant in the US. This last one was near to where we base when we are in the states, a small extremely multicultural city called… Read More President Trump, Tear Down These Walls!

Many years ago in New Delhi I met a dear man who I never forgot, Tom Little. Tom and his wife Libby served the people of Afghanistan for decades, serving a variety of ways in the nation and becoming a Father and Mother of Hope in Christ. About six years ago, Tom and several others… Read More We Will Not Forget You, Tom Little

For over a thousand years up to the 17th century the Indian Ocean was arguably the center of merchant activity. It was the Maritime route of the several Silk Roads. In the 15th century it became the lustful focus of the rising Portuguese Empire as they pushed East.  In a recent book, The Ocean of… Read More Back to the Future: the Indian Ocean Again a Center of Global Activity

There was a period in World History when for many centuries India and China dominated world commerce. Up to the start of the Industrial Revolution in Europe about 1750, India and China controlled approximately 45% of global wealth. In fact for a thousand years before, the major trade routes across Asia by land (the Silk… Read More India and China Once Dominated World Trade: Will it Happen Again?