- Musing in Bawlmer Greetings from Baltimore. A.K.A. “The Greatest City in America,” and, even more hysterical (considering the literacy rate), “The City that Reads.” I love Baltimore. She is the rough, sassy, audacious younger sister to Washington, D.C, just forty minutes up highway 95. I always loved inventing the rivalry between these two close cities. I’m still a […]
- Chesterton for the iPod Generation Until the end of September, Sermon Cloud is offering a free audio book download of G.K. Chesterton’s classic, Orthodoxy. Go to Sermon Cloud and scroll down to the bottom right corner for the banner. It’s not a hoax. I just downloaded the baby. No credit card or anything. Boo-yah. I have been wanting to read […]
- How to Rest in America – part 1 (This post has nothing to do with my cat, Gus. I just really miss him. He’s back in Portugal with a wonderful new family.) I had a teary-fight with God a few days ago. I know he’s asking me to spend time back here in the USA to Rest. But, I said, I don’t know […]
- Weeding through the Web (We interrupt this eleven-day blog “hmmmm” on the Church in the End Times for a brief breath of garden air.) When I first arrived in Portugal with Jane, back in 2003, I stayed with the lovely Luxton family. The Luxtons have an outrageous garden. I couldn’t stop sitting in it. One day in that garden […]
- As Storm Clouds Gather I have often been moved by books that slip under the radar screen of popular approval. (In fact, I tend to duck from those ones. I’m a little stubborn and prideful, I know.) This book is one of those quiet messengers: “As Storm Clouds Gather: A Sleeping Church Must Be Awakened,” by Jim Maher. I […]
- Tattooed Saints I am without words for how refreshing it has been to be with both the 24-7 Prayer community, and here at IHOP. I’ll turn instead to tattoos. Tonight I went with a ministry team of ordinary people into inner-city Kansas City. We left from the IHOP parking lot, prayed we’d bring with us God’s love […]
- View from the clouds I am on a plane headed to Kansas City. There’s a nice view. I salute Southwest Airlines. They are cheap. (Ahem…the flight from Denver to KC cost the same as filling up my car’s gas tank in Portugal.) And they serve plane-shaped crackers! They are such a crack-up when they give the safety-instructions. Today our […]
- Jesus loves me, this I know. Here I am, in Colorado, at Missions Training International, for a week of de-briefing my three and a half years in Portugal. I’m with about twenty other missionaries returning from countries like Ethiopia, Haiti, Russia, and the like. We’re all processing the emotions of leaving America to make a foreign culture a home, and then […]
- Leavin on a jet plane During my last days in Portugal I stayed with my dear friends (they are family), the Bordens. The night before my flight I stayed up all night to try to get my body back on American time. (And because I was still sorting through all those piles of files from my apartment in Sao Joao.) […]
- Kitty theology I used to hate cats. Then one day Jane brought home a little kitty named, “Gus,” and he won my heart. I cried like a baby the day I had to give him away to a new Mama, on account of my leaving Portugal. And then I made a ridiculous tribute to him here: Gus […]
- Saying Goodbye to Portugal:Fresh Bread for Thursday Dinners I am going to miss Thursday nights, when my buzzer starts humming at 18:50 with teenagers hungry for dinner. Tonight at 18:25, I realized I needed some nice bread with the stroganoff, so I ran downstairs to the Panisol cafe and breadshop on the first floor. It’s […]
- “Hello,” said Me. hello. this is me. and this is my new blog. keep the coffee hot. enjoy.
