Category Archives: Article

  A university professor in Thailand decided to reduce cheating in her class by requiring all students to wear “anti-cheating hats”, affectionately called “blinkers”. An engineering professor in the Philippines saw what Thailand had instigated and allowed her students to … Continue reading →

In English we teach the ABCs as the foundation for instructing language to our children. The Hebrew version is “ABG’s” (Aleph, Bet, Gimel). The Jews used these first three letters of the Hebrew alphabet to help their children memorize Scripture. … Continue reading →

After a visit to the Grand Canyon with my son Tim’s family in July, I wrote an article for Tim’s weekly newspaper column:  Christ and Common Sense: Time or Intensity?  You can read it here.

Most all of us have been wearing masks for over a year and have heard lots of discussion on the relative benefits of mask-wearing as well as the differences in cloth, paper, N-95 and surgical masks.  My Thai church even … Continue reading →

In Luke 13, Jesus used two contemporary catastrophes (the massacre at the temple mount and fall of the Tower of Siloam where 18 died) to draw attention to man’s need to repent. In other words, Jesus used a well-known current … Continue reading →

Every day I get an update on the growth of the coronavirus around the world. What amazes me is the day to day increases that you see in some countries. This phenomenon is called exponential growth.  From my college days, … Continue reading →

The corona pandemic and justice issues for the vulnerable. These two issues have taken front stage globally and are the topic of most every conversation. In ancient Israel there were three groups that were most vulnerable and often subject to … Continue reading →

With the outbreak of Covid-19, writers have been revisiting similar pandemics from the past, especially the Spanish flu of 1918-20 which infected 500 million people. Early missionaries to Thailand were no strangers to such pandemics either as smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, … Continue reading →