Angels of Southeast Asia
SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA — “Hospitality” sometimes includes a trip to the hospital. I learned that much during my visit to this Southeast Asian city, about an…
Insight
Sunday in Ukraine
IRPIN, UKRAINE — Walls of pure white, adorned with a single, thin wooden cross, surround a group of 35 worshipers on Sunday morning. The immaculate…
‘In violent times, you shouldn’t have to sell your soul’
I spent Saturday afternoon driving my family home from my in-laws’ in Altus, Okla. We plugged in my phone and queued up the greatest hits…
Why Ukraine still matters
ZOSIN, POLAND — “Can I ask you a stupid question?” the border guard said. “Where are you going?” He had just asked me if I…
Adopted by Dawgs
ATHENS, GA. — The first time I walked into the auditorium of the Campus View Church of Christ, I had a hard time sitting down.…
Bible Bowl’s real competition: youth sports
DALLAS — All that time I spent pounding Pi Hahiroth into the kids’ heads was for naught. There wasn’t a single question about the location…
Team finds the good in a tough, tough season
EDMOND, Okla. — This isn’t “Hoosiers” — a feel-good story about a small-town basketball team overcoming steep odds to win the state title. In fact,…
My election year mantra: ‘Let me Listen’
TULSA, Okla. — Jeanie and I sat in Chapman Hall of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, listening to our 16-year-old daughter sing in Latin. But…
A Revelation (or two) at Freed-Hardeman
HENDERSON, Tenn. — Revelation is a New Testament book that a lot of us try to avoid. But within the apostle John’s visions of lions,…
After two decades away, a busy and blessed Sunday in Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga. — The unmistakable smell of paper mill mixed with salt marsh hit my nostrils as soon as I stepped out of the airport.…
