June 3, 2014
An hour out of Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, we pulled off the highway onto a trail which looked impassable. The local pastor, riding his All Terrain […]
May 20, 2014
I stood in the cell where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen of his twenty-seven imprisoned years. While it now appeared unremarkable, it still seemed somewhat hallowed. As […]
March 6, 2014
Few countries display such extremes, from pervasive poverty to stores with most anything one could want; from literacy rates of fifty-five percent to the well educated; […]
February 5, 2014
The “Velvet Revolution” of 1989 ended 41 years of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, transforming it into a parliamentary republic. Václav Havel, a hero and playwright was […]
January 15, 2014
January 13, 2014
No country boasts of being more “Christian” than Greece. Not only is Greece totally defined as Christian it is most difficult to socially navigate if you […]
December 11, 2013
As I walked up the many steps to the preaching pulpit in Central Baptist Church near Red Square in Moscow, I had a flash back. Looking […]
November 11, 2013
It seems unlikely that an imposing former professional British football (soccer) player would end up as a social worker. And even more unlikely, is that he […]
October 30, 2013
It was the 1960s. Teenagers in Rome were as much into psychedelic music, mind-tripping drugs and hippy music as they were in LA or London. But […]