With the outbreak of Covid-19, writers have been revisiting similar pandemics from the past, especially the Spanish flu of 1918-20 which infected 500 million people. Early missionaries to [...]
Three women. A British woman, formerly an architect. Now a church planter in Thailand. Her violin sings. A young Singaporean lady who recently spent 12 months working in after-school programs [...]
If you asked people to define “pandemic” a few months ago most all would have struggled, but now everyone seems to understand how a disease can spread quickly to an entire nation and even world. [...]
If you search the word “Fail” using Youtube, you will generate literally 100s of clips and millions of hits. If they had Youtube in Bible times they could have videoed numerous fails by some very [...]
There is a small, dime-sized hole just above our kitchen sink. A couple weeks ago, Julie noticed a roach peering out from the hole, and so she grabbed the roach spray and put it to good use. What [...]
A few years ago, a group of women on a short-term mission trip from the states came to a Thai temple and to the horror of their host began to hug some of the child novices! They explained, “We [...]
In Matthew 13 is the well-known parable of Jesus called ‘the parable of the sower,’ the first of seven parables teaching something about the Kingdom of God. Often when reading this parable, I’ve [...]
There are some sights in Thailand I could live without – for example, a red-legged centipede racing across my kitchen floor. (It was months before my toes didn’t curl every time I walked into the [...]
In the fall of 1971, the United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War, so as a freshman in college I decided to join the Air Force R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officers’ Training Corp) due to an [...]
Aunty Em was at the end of hope. The priest at the local temple hadn’t helped. The traditional medicine healer (witch doctor) hadn’t helped. The local medical clinic said they couldn’t find [...]
