”For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” Robert Louis Stevenson This summer I joined a “Scottish Odyssey” organized by Gillian Schoemaker, a native of Scotland who lives now in Pennsylvania. I had travelled with her and 12 others to Egypt [...]
I took Milan Kundera’s slim novel “Ignorance” down from the library shelves. His books are not easy to penetrate (you do not read them for entertainment) and within a few moments I knew that by reading this book I would be provoked to examine my own life more closely. I was intrigued by the title which [...]
“There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is His Prophet”—prayed daily by Muslims In December 2010 I was in Egypt. I was met at the Cairo airport by a driver who was to take me to Sekem – a thriving, sustainable community created out of the desert in 1977. The man’s [...]
I have always been interested in St. Paul and I have wanted to understand what he experienced in Damascus. Beforehand, Paul had lived the life of a Jewish Pharisee believing that the common life had to be regulated as laid down in the books of the Old Testament. Male babies were circumcised. There were laws [...]
When I heard that Philip Roth has just won the 2011 Man Booker International, I went right over to the library to check out one of his books. I had no idea that he had written so many (about 30) and that he had won just about every literary award possible and some of them [...]
“You shall not make for yourself an idol…….for I the LORD your God am a jealous God” (Deut 5:8) Yikes! When I read this I can relate to the distaste that many people feel about the God of the Old Testament . Can there actually be a God who is “jealous?” My marriage broke [...]
