Category Archives: Blogs
Adventures in an Indian Village
Sunday, October 26th 2008
Diwali is the single biggest Hindu festival. It is the festival of lights. And of course comes with its own ancient Hindu myth about you guessed it an evil king, a brave warrior, and a god. The hero triumphs darkness is dispelled and light comes for the first time to the world, or at least
From the Back of a Magazine
Saturday, October 25th 2008
It’s got to be close to 3:00am I think as I turn on my Ipod to find that it claims it is only 11:03. Between the two of us I figure I am the more trustworthy source and settle on a time closer to my estimate than the Ipods declaration. After all anything that declares
One Hungry By Stander, One Hundred Thousand Yellow Shirts
Saturday, October 18th 2008
Well I made the critical although understandable mistake of venturing out from my hidden box this evening. Hunger drove me forth, freedom kept me out. Okay maybe that is a bit embellished, but it sure sounds better than: I went out because I was too lazy to cook and had to walk home through a
Endless Answers
Sunday, October 12th 2008
After church today before we went to eat, Koenig had to stop at the book store again. He is making it into a weekly ritual which is not good for my pocket book. On my own I try to do my best to avoid the book store. This week I managed to keep it down
Forgetting the Sabbai
Saturday, October 4th 2008
Dave’s return and the advent of my winter retreat to colder climates, what would January be without negative weather and ice storms, has spurned a group of visits that are shorter per district but more densely packed together. Next year we are talking about visiting the districts separately so that we can each get two
Taj Coromandel and Italians
Thursday, October 2nd 2008
I realize my updates on this site have been getting fewer and farther between. I wish I could say it is because I am so busy with the Lord’s work over here, but I seem to find plenty of time for doing all kinds of other things so that wouldn’t really be accurate. Rather it
Sheep and Goats
Thursday, September 4th 2008
Growing up in America I always thought of sheep as short round and fluffy, goats on the other hand were rather tall, skinny, lean and of course had horns. Not too hard to tell the difference between the two. Consequently I never thought a big deal of the fact that Jesus separates the sheep from
he did not come
Wednesday, August 20th 2008
A book I was recently reading described a Hindu hymn which was a prayer to the god Ram. It began by praying that the Lord Ram would come and visit the singer. It went on to repeat this prayer citing different reasons why he should come, promising different sacrifices if he would come, finally in
My Own Raven
Friday, July 18th 2008
July 17, 2008 – Chennai, IndiaLast night shortly before midnight, I had already brushed my teeth and was just about to change for bed, when the faintest knock occurred on my door. Reminiscent of Poe’s dolefully dramatic but wonderful rhythmatic The Raven. ” . . . suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one
An Empty Gap
July 16, 2008 – Chennai, India GMT +5:30Today I was on my way to teach at our Bible school in Nagalapuram, when the car broke down. Actually I was taking a nap in the back of the car, from which I awoke after my body sense that we were stopped for some unknown reason. The