By Mary Alan It’s the little things, the mundane, that cause me to fail as a cross-cultural witness. On the other hand, the catastrophes and emergencies — these events are catalyzers for my witness: A colleague has been kidnapped. A believer is undergoing severe persecution. When these things happen, my husband and I call our […]
Why would thousands of people from all across the world travel thousands of miles to stand in a very long line in blistering hot temperatures and freezing weather to crowd down narrow stone steps to emerge in a stuffy small subterranean space with people crowded together shoulder to shoulder? Why would some of them weep […]
“…the Singing Men of Georgia … I would venture to say, brought Christmas early to Jerusalem.”
“In the midst of some of the worst violence seen in Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the last couple of decades, we were there as ambassadors for Christ…”