There are many types of pilgrimages. Some are walking, some are inner journeys of the soul. Throughout human history, people have embarked on these journeys, whether outer or inner. A pilgrim is one who seeks to listen, to follow where they may not have normally gone. In some ways, to be a pilgrim is to… Read More Pilgrimage across the Silk Road: Part 1
The new year is now nine weeks old. I have been in India the past five weeks, and soon on my way to Kathmandu, Nepal. It has been so good to return again to the nation I first came to almost 43 years ago. I was 23 then. Because of my love for India and… Read More How are you experiencing freshness in this new year of 2025?
‘Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.’ This quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell is from her small book of meditations on reaching the age of 82. (The Measure of My Days, pg 65).… Read More Life shatters us
How would Christian history be different if the Apostle Paul had traveled on the trade routes (the ‘Silk Roads’) to the East into the Persian Empire rather than stayed within the Roman Empire and ended his life in Rome? What if Paul, with all his gifts and abilities, had been not only the ‘Apostle to… Read More Unveiling Alternate History: Apostle Paul in the East
One of the most illustrious Apostolic learning communities in history, the Church of the East monastery called Beit Abe (or Beit Abhe), has also been one of the most elusive in knowing the actual location. Begun in 595 by Rabban Jacob, this monastery became perhaps the primary mission sending location for those going to places… Read More Do you know the way to Beit Abe?
It has now been over two weeks since the devastating attack by Hamas on Israel, resulting in continuing death and destruction in Gaza. There seems to be no end in sight, with over 200 Israeli and other nationalities held as hostages by Hamas, and Israel preparing for a ground invasion into Gaza while continuing bombing… Read More Lamenting but not without hope
It has often been on the margins in history, outside established power centers, that fresh social and religious movements have begun. This may be true again today globally as a world stricken by plague faces the shifting winds of sudden change. It was true in the fifth and sixth century onwards, as on the Western… Read More New life on the fringes/margins of Empire
How does the future look to you? In parts of the world like where I am at present, covid is retreating and life begins to return to ‘normal’. You may be reading this in a nation or region where life is anything but normal, instead perhaps in lockdown or curfew of some kind. In just… Read More The Future is as Bright as the Promises of God
Last week, on July 8, was the 40th year anniversary of one of the greatest hope-crushing days of my life. I had just completed my first year serving with the mission group, YWAM, that I am still with. On that day in July, 1980, I was to have departed from Sea-tac airport in Seattle with… Read More Ever feel your hopes have been crushed?
It is the Christmas season. A time of celebrating a new birth that would enlighten the darkness, bring hope to the hopeless. It is also a time of gift giving and receiving, even for those of little or no religious faith. Two of the greatest gifts in my life happen to be also the two… Read More Shakings in the two largest democracies on earth
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