Thirty-four years ago, I was working at a truck terminal in Indiana. One of the other drivers (known for his sexual misbehaviour) asked...

We were blessed with a visitor Wednesday morning. Herbert Mhango, a student of ours (2001-2002), stopped for a short visit. Since 2003,...

I have never owned a rifle or a handgun. I have never worked for, or received a payment of any kind from, a gun manufacturer. I am not...

Trips down memory lane are the only international travel that I am taking these days. I took two of them today. They were good for me....

The current king of Eswatini is Mswati III. His father was Sobhuza II. If you trace the royal family back more generations you eventually...

Today, 11 May 2022, the Biden administration’s Department of the Interior apologized for the fact that millions of Native American...

In Luke 10:26, Jesus asks a young man, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” He does not ask him “What would you like?” Or...

In his devotional book, Like Christ, Andrew Murray makes this keen observation. “...the more entirely one is not of the world, the more...

In returning to this part of Africa, I confess to having fond memories of certain things that happened when we lived here before. For...

I had to drive into Matsapha this morning. I had built some benches for the children to use during Sunday School, and we needed some...

There is another missionary couple living down the road from us. We have quite a bit in common. We enjoy getting together occasionally....

Wouldn’t it be great if we could reduce the suffering in the world by 50%? George MacDonald said, “Half the misery in the world comes...

It has been over 120 years since these words were put in print; but they are as true and relevant as this morning’s newspaper. In fact,...

“For to the Lord belongs the capital of Aram, as do all the tribes of Israel” (Zech. 9:1 NRSV). I am not a Hebrew scholar, so I cannot...

(from my book Positive Notes for Daily Living) I was standing atop the high-wall (an artificial cliff created by strip-mining). I was...

About thirty years ago a co-worker complained that he did not understand why anyone would hold up Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a good example...

The earlier missionaries made a lot of mistakes. I remember learning about those mistakes in school. The earlier missionaries did not...

Progress normally involves having a simple plan and following it. Success in football starts with a few basic skills well practised. In...

The long-awaited container load of our books and household items arrived at our house in Eswatini a week ago. The preliminary unpacking...

I was sent here to write textbooks for African Bible colleges. But for almost two weeks I scrubbed floors. How can I justify this? How...