At first it was a game. I tapped button after button, tapped and held each sensor, slid my finger along the touch-screen slider… all the while hoping to get the stovetop to heat up. But as I tapped and fiddled, holding my hand above one of the burner surfaces and sensing zero heat, my game …
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The story of the storehouse that was too small *Note: this post is part of a series on how living in Eurasia affected my understanding of the Bible. Please head over to the top of my post on “Birthday Cake for Chickens” to catch my disclaimer if you haven’t yet! 13 Someone in the crowd said …
If you live in America and eat grocery store turkey every year for Thanksgiving, you have no idea what real turkey is like. I didn’t either, until I spent Thanksgiving overseas and got blindsided by how weird we are. A little over ten years ago, I was living in southern Russia. I studied at a …
Modern insights into Biblical footwashing John 13:1-17 *Note: this is part of a series on how living in Eurasia affected my understanding of the Bible. Please head over to my post “Birthday Cake for Chickens“ to catch my explanation and disclaimer there if you haven’t yet. In my Western life, I had only ever seen footwashing in …
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The Bleeding Woman Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34 and Luke 8:43-44 *Note: this is part of a series on how living in Eurasia affected my understanding of the Bible. Please head over to my post “Birthday Cake for Chickens” to catch my explanation and disclaimer there if you haven’t yet. Just then a woman who had …
The man with the shriveled right hand Mark 3:1-6, Matthew 12:9-14 and Luke 6:6-11 (Only Luke’s account specifically says it was his right hand.) *Note: this is part of a series on how living in Eurasia affected my understanding of the Bible. Please head over to my post on “Birthday Cake for Chickens” to catch …
A cross-cultural look at Jesus and the Syrophoenician woman.
My understanding of this passage is shaped by three principles from communal cultures:
Want to know what I’m worried about this week? Saturday night we’re going over to our friends’ house to eat fajitas and watch college football. Ok, fine, I’m not losing sleep over it. But I have thought about it a lot. I still have a little bit of anxiety about social situations where I might reveal …
