reflection

Acts 28   I was much given to catching garter snakes as a boy, always keeping a few in a large terrarium in my bedroom. At least I did so until the night of the great escape. I must not have sufficiently weighted the lid. My horrified mother disallowed snakes in the house thereafter.   […]

Acts 26 – 27   Luke, our author, accompanies Paul on many of the travels recounted in the Book of Acts. Luke is a companion and participant on the missionary journeys, and we have met many members of the emergent Church along the way. But unlike Barnabas, Silas, John Mark, Lydia, Aquila, Priscilla, Timothy or

Acts 23 – 25 The rooster started crowing at 3am outside my small REI wrought tent pitched on the family compound of Madame and Samuel Cassius in Montrouis, Haiti, a verdant banana palm village on the coast 90 miles North of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The perimeter of the compound was surrounded by fire-bush, and just beyond

Acts 22 Learning a language is an affair of the heart. I did not fall for German in seventh grade at Ridgeview Junior High despite Miss Steinhaus’s svelte appearance and academic encouragement. What would have happened if, at that tender age, I’d enrolled instead in Spanish? Señor Rodriguez had seemed wound awfully tight, and Miss