So what did 2020 look like in Oman? How did the global shutdown affect her and her neighbors in Muscat? And what’s the view of America from way over there? I asked Ruth and just like she has every day for fifteen years, she gave it to me straight.
A ‘new’ New Yorker
They say once you’ve lived in New York for ten years, you can officially call yourself a New Yorker. Today, that’s me. Today is my tenth anniversary of living in New York City.
40 Days and 40 Nights
Today marks 40 days of living in my personal Ark in Harlem. I've been keeping a quarantine journal to document this weird time and this morning, I thought about Noah. I wrote about him in "Sunday School for Sinners & Saints" but today, I feel like Noah is me. And you. Perhaps this is what …
You Are Who You Hang Out With
I wasn’t going to write specifically about Jesus. My thought process was that JC is the through-line in all of the stories so I’d covered that already. But that was a cop out. The real reason I wasn’t going to include a specific take on Jesus was because as a kid in Sunday school, Jesus …
The Importance of Asking Questions
David is one of the greatest of the Bible greats. I mean, if the Bible had its own team of Avengers, David would be Captain America. (Or Captain Israel, more appropriately) But really, how could he not be? He made his mark early on, striking down Goliath with the definitive good-over-evil, stand up for the …
