Martin Luther’s Legacy
What, exactly, did Martin Luther look like? We’re not sure. He died on February 18, 1546 in the town…
Old-fashioned Indian Threshing
Around the country, the harvest has begun. Huge machines crawl across fields of corn and soybeans, g…
The Message of Our Ringing Bell
Buddhist temples are scattered throughout the forests in the mountainous Korean Peninsula. Their tra…
Kitchen Blessing
A friend in the Czech Republic gave me an oval plate, which he called a kitchen blessing. That’s whe…
Banana Bicycles
I crossed paths with two men and their bicycles in Rajahmundry, India. One was at the banana market …
Why So Many Caskets Right Here?
Souvenir: from the French for ‘remember.’ Most South American cities are centered around the Plaza d…
World Mission Souvenir Photos
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Outside the busy, crowded cities of urban India, scenes such as this World Mission Souvenir are common. A river laundry seems strange to us because we live in such a sophisticated part of the world. Do places like this really exist? Indeed they do. It’s a big world. Jesus encourages us, “you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1).“