Jim Clancy was in Beirut the other day. This is the same Jim Clancy who lived in a hotel in East Beirut back in the 1980s during the civil war in Lebanon. He was a CNN correspondent then, a good one. In fact, he just recently retired from CNN, and he was in Lebanon to […]
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Invited to be present as a small book club met to discuss “In Borrowed Houses,” I answered some question by explaining that in Lebanon all the big political leaders had their own militias. The group could easily see that this created a ready-made civil war situation, and this caused a few people to feel immediately […]
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Two months ago I posted a blog called, “A Propitious Moment.” (You can see it on this page.) In that article I named six things I really want for our world, things I believe in enough to take a stand and sacrifice for. At the end I asked readers to comment, stating their own wishes. […]
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I am sharing with you an English translation of a poem written for and published in a tract from the Egyptian Bible Society. It will help readers see the heart of our Christian comrades in Egypt. Two rows of men walked the shore of the sea, On a day when the world’s tears would run […]
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“On Sunday rain and sleet and snow fell all day and the hills around us turned white—from a few kilometers up the road, all the way to the top of Mt. Sunnin, and along the road to Damascus. Our house was oblivious to the cold.” This is the final paragraph of a tiny section called […]
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