Yesterday afternoon I wearily set off to visit Yow, a friend of mine who has cancer and has been diagnosed as terminal. She has been in hospital for over a month, she is in a fair amount of pain [...]
The countries of Asia, as a part of the majority world which are mainly preferred oral learners, receive the Easter message very well when it comes in the form of concrete relational [...]
You know it’s hot season in Thailand when … 1. You are happy to go to immigration because it means a morning of sitting in air conditioning. 2. An hour after being washed, laundry is dry — [...]
I am writing this on April 1st (April Fools), a day famous for hijinx and general tomfoolery in the west. But in Thailand it is a serious day to reflect on King Rama V (Chulalongkorn) who on [...]
Last week, my schedule was all blown to pieces. My wife, Belinda, was away on a training course. I was home with my youngest son, Steven. I would be the super-dad, up at 5 am each morning to get [...]
I don’t know if you’ve come across one of The Bible Project videos, but they are fantastic. The two creators, Timothy Mackie and Jonathan Collins wanted “to help people read [...]
How do you tell the dentist that one of your molars hurts? How do you say you would rather order 1 kilogram of chicken than 2? How do you ask where the bathroom is? These are all relatively [...]
“So do we just go back?” I looked at my teammate, at a loss as to what to do. It was supposed to be our first Kids’ Club at the community center of a slum. I was so excited that we had finally [...]
It`s evening and we are walking down a quiet street, only a few lanterns giving some light. Most of the houses are closed and look deserted. But as we come closer we see that there`s someone [...]
Recently I have sat with a number of missionaries who have had to leave their mission station unexpectedly due to persecution by government officials. As an open country, Thailand ends up [...]
