Psalm 23:4a Last week I stood by the coffin containing the body of Precious Joe as it was lowered into the ground. Handfuls of dirt and then shovelfuls of dirt landed on the coffin and then, at the end, there was a new mound of fresh dirt in a cemetery of buried bodies. Our Liberian…

Psalm 23:3 If you have worked for a number of companies or organizations, you know that there are good bosses and bad bosses. There are good teachers and bad teachers. There are good friends and bad friends. Why is this so? It could be a matter of competency. There are some teachers who do not…

Psalm 23:2 In a little more than a month, Morocco will celebrate the Eid Kabir, Eid Al Adha. Take your camera out in the weeks before and you will get pictures of sheep tied onto the roofs of taxis, crammed into the trunks of cars, in the back of the small Honda trucks, and even…

Psalm 23:1 In the first four centuries in the catacombs of Rome, where people were buried, the most characteristic symbols and pictures on the tombs are the Good Shepherd, the Fish, and the Vine. Of these images, the popular religion of the early Christians was the Religion of the Good Shepherd. They saw in that…

Psalm 120 I just returned from the US where I met with a number of people who once lived in Rabat and attended RIC. It was great to see them again in person and hear their story of what has happened in their lives since they left Rabat. I also met with other people who…