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 […]
Read more "Amazing"“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 […]
Read more "Inoculate"I am in charge of Preschool Games at VBS. Today we rewrote London Bridge, “Jesus loves you, yes he does, yes he does. Jesus loves you, yes he does. You’re forgiven.” At “you’re forgiven” the bridge fell and the kids would be grabbed into Christ’s forgiveness. I thought the game was completely goofy, but I […]
Read more "Falling Down, Falling Down"I found myself moving road cones at Chandler. Half the parking lot, including half the entrance, was blocked off for repairs and sealing. But the dry time was up and preschool pick-up was about to begin. So, with permission, I moved all the cones to open our entrance. That is when I noticed the nails. […]
Read more "Nails in Road Cones"Of all our luxuries it was the faucet that made me feel guilty. In Haiti there was only one filtered tap on the compound where we could drink. We were told not to swish from the faucet. Keep your mouth closed while showering. Now back at home I was showering with pure drinking water. In […]
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