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Can you imagine reading the following imaginary quote of Jesus in the Bible (used as an illustration)? “I cannot do anything for you. I cannot benefit you or save you. In the future, you will go through hell.” If this imaginary quote were true, would Jesus decrease in value in…
“You have to do the ceremonies”—a phrase Mama Jacques would come to regret saying to her son Jaque almost a year ago. The father of one of the evangelists had died, and all the other evangelists came to support the family. The evangelists were talking to the villagers and witnessing…
“Your landlord’s wife has died. Come, let’s go to the funeral to support the family,” George Tooray, my missionary colleague, called unexpectedly to say. Our landlord is a busy guy. I think I have only met him once or twice, but he is a younger man, younger than myself. And…
A land sculpted by glaciers. The Northern Lights dancing across ancient ice sheets. Kalaallit Nunaat—Greenland. The Inuit people of Greenland have maintained their cultural identity through millennia. Their language, Kalaallisut, isn’t merely a means of communication; it’s the heartbeat of their culture. Each word carries the weight of generations, each…
Is it true you’re leaving?” Our neighbor Bina stood just outside our garden gate with her little boy. We haven’t spent much time with this family—Bina married soon after we moved to the village and she and her husband and small son share the home with her parents. Her father…
“Is that ash falling on my face?” My children and I were enjoying a late afternoon swim in an outdoor pool. Across the street, helicopters had been battling forest fires for weeks. But the familiar smoke coming from deep within the forest all of a sudden grew thicker. We returned…
Shuffling down the sidewalk and bending over to an almost 90-degree angle, an elderly woman carrying a large bundle of sticks on her back caught my eye as I sat at a traffic light, eager to finish my hour-long trip home on a Friday afternoon. Seeing that we were in…
“I kind of want to get my nails done,” I said. “Yes, me, too!” responded my new friend Angela from South Carolina. “Let’s do it tomorrow when we go to Columbia for my meeting.” I started researching places to go near the restaurant where she was supposed to have her…
“May I ask you a religious question, Hoca?” I queried. In the States, we address professors with the term “Doctor.” In Turkey, even in an informal context, it is common to say, “Teacher” (Hoca) along with the first name. Across the lunch table from me was Ozan, a professor of…
And they lived happily ever after. . . . You have heard of those love stories, right? The ones where the prince falls in love with the princess, and he does everything possible to have her. He fights against enemies, rides a horse for miles and rescues the princess from…