Last week I spoke about my brother’s, Jacob, experience in Mexico. He was building houses in a small city. There he met a young man who invited him to visit his family in the mountains. It was a small community. Mud brick homes, built with bricks they made themselves. The roofs, also mud, had grass […]

We arrived home from vacation to find our aquarium teaming with fish – six new babies. Who was the mom; who was the father? Well, after a slow plague, we were down to just two fish. So it is safe to assume they are the parents. But Meg was not happy our aquarium did not […]

Today… right now even… New Horizons is passing by Pluto – 3 billion miles away. If all goes as planned the satellite will begin beaming back information and images this evening – at the speed of light the information will take 4.5 hours to reach earth – transmitted at one kilobit per second it will […]

“North America is a place where people have absorbed just enough Christianity to inoculate them against the contagion of the real thing.” – Will Willimon, Resident Aliens This is as true inside the church as without. In a world eradicated of measles, we forgot the danger. The virus’s threat became hypothetical. Without a known danger […]