I finished a book today: Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel by Tony Campolo and Brian D. McLaren. I’ve read both authors before and both have beefs with the church* just like me. So, maybe I’m not challenging my thinking by choosing to read their diagnosis of the … [Read more…]
Got an email from my friend Carole suggesting I take a look at this video clip from TED. It discusses using technology to link the collective images on the web to form one master image of the world. In other words, if I post a picture of my house and add a bit of meta … [Read more…]
About 5 weeks ago, I drove a 13-year-old to a private pediatricians clinic. The boy had been steadily declining in his condition of stiff joints and severe pain for 6 months. His parents had brought him to a local doctor who had said that he had rheumatic fever and prescribed some antibiotics and other things. … [Read more…]
This is how most Guatemalan’s cook. There aren’t many benefits to this. The one benefit I can think of is heat when it’s cold. The damages are numerous. The smoke is thick. Lungs and eyes are constantly irritated and related illnesses are common. Children are often burned when they pull burning sticks onto themselves or … [Read more…]
Our latest mailout to sponsors from their sponsor children was the child’s favorite verse. It took a long time to translate the 450 sheets. The younger ones added drawings and the older ones explained why they chose the verse. There were some very funny and very touching verses that I thought I would record here. … [Read more…]
I just woke up to Blaise barking at stray dogs and Acadia sneezing repeatedly next to me in bed. Let me offer you some highlights of yesterday though. I picked up 4 classes worth of cards for sponsors from one of our schools. The students are writing their favorite Bible verse and either drawing a … [Read more…]
For those faithful readers, I thought I would go back a few posts and provide an up-to-date report on some recent events (rather than post comments on 2-month-old posts): Frutas Extranjeras: Found out that the jocote is also known as the spondias mombin, the gully plum, the Spanish plum, the hog plum, the Ashanti plum, … [Read more…]
I finished 2 books this week. I never finish that many books in one week – I’m too slow a reader. I also started listening to a couple bands, saw some good films, and got some good reading/listening on the web so I thought I would share… BOOKS: “Girlfriend in a Coma” by Douglas CouplandThis … [Read more…]
I’d really like to share what’s going through my mind / heart / life right now, but social convention really does limit my ability to share openly. If I were to express frankly and without restraint, what would people think? How would it affect my ministry, career, and most importantly my family? Where did the … [Read more…]
So my days lately have involved working 7 am through until 9 or 10 pm. Hence the lack of blog posts the past 2 weeks. Rigth now there are two teams here at the same time: Living Waters Christian Academy with 20 people (14 of them are former students of mine) and Bearspaw Christian School … [Read more…]