Silver Anniversary Voyage

Silver Anniversary Voyage Blog June 11, Day 10: Roma After breakfast in the hotel, we crossed the plaza to the Pantheon and saw its interior for the 3rd time in our lives and each time saw something different and were lifted to a higher level. The structure, the...

THE LAST PAGE FOR CHRISTIANITY IN SYRIA?

I just watched, with great sadness, a report on CNN about the occupation of Maloula, the Christian community I have visiting and wrote about in The Last Page. ISIS took over Maloula in late, 2013, something I did not know, (though I had been monitoring that...

Sermon Preached at St. Luke UMC 4/10/16

The Christian Faith and Politics: A Holy Alliance Will you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag and our country. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,...

New Zealand Journal Day 9

New Zealand Journal Day 9 After breakfast we spent the morning and part of the afternoon on a harbor nature cruise gratis per one of the managers of the cruise. When she learned we were guests in Akaroa she insisted Sandi and I, along with Jackie Bone, be her guests....

New Zealand Journal Day 8

New Zealand Journal Day 8 We awoke to another day of perfect fall weather and checked out of The Settles, one of the nicest lodgings Sandi and I have had in years traveling abroad. The manager even changed a hundred dollars for me and gave me the best rate yet: $100...