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This page is a little digital scrapbook of the life that we are building together.
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This is a short reflection I wrote up out of my own limited experience with interfaith communities as they currently practice.
Strengths of Interfaith
Countercultural Courage
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Here is a draft of the short movie I put together for the PEB. I follow a day in the life of a child in a Pakistani village.
My intention in making the film is to...
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Sarah and I have wandered on to Ajmer, another little holy oasis town in the Rajasthani desert. We passed through the city briefly on our tour with Lydia, and...
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In America, whenever we needed to know something, we asked Google. In Rishikesh, Google is called Albert, and works eighteen hours a day as the Receptionist and...
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Alfonz took the crucifix lovingly in his hands, turning it over a few times with care and reverence. He gave a sad, low “hmm.”
“It’s broken, man,” he...
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Some of them are worth even more. This picture encapsulates our time in India with effortless humor.
The ancient...
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I didn’t really know that I was an American until I came to India.
Of course, I’ve always known cognitively that I am an American: I’ve always known that I...
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The Barna Group has just released an interesting study that gets to the heart of something I have felt about American faith for some time: a lack of clarity on...
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Here is a copy of the note that we sent out to our church, to keep them informed of our travels at home and abroad.
Dear IAC Family,
Greetings from the pilgrim...
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Sarah and I have had to learn a lot of hard lessons about how business gets done in India. The lessons we learned growing up about how wealth is to be used, how...
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There are probably about a hundred ashrams in Rishikesh of one sort or another. We hear that a good ashram is a great place to learn just about anything about...
Foods we want to Cook
Stuffed Capsicum
Aloo Palak
Malai Kofta
Chapatis
(better) Aloo Gobhi
Egg curry
What we need (Materials)
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When we first came to India, we were amused by the selection we came across in hotel restaurants and tourist cafes. It differs marginally from eatery to eatery,...
Eggplant curry (Baigan Bharta) may sound adventuresome, but it is actually quite delicious. Eggplant is naturally rich and sweet, and has a delicious smooth texture when cooked in this...
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Dehli, September 25
The complementary breakfast at the YWCA International Guest House, Delhi is a unique culinary and cultural experience, though probably by...
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"Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the Master's table."
—Matthew 15:27
Today's Eucharistic readings point us to one of the central tensions of the...
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Sarah and I are on the road again. Well, sort of.
Don’t get me wrong. We’ve definitely come to a new chapter in our story. We have certainly entered a new...
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It seems to be wedding season in India. Sarah and I came to regret the cute little balconies that our rooms had in Ajmer and Pushkar.
Don't get me wrong: the...
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Our anniversary trip to Chail was fantastic; truly amazing. I don’t think we’ve had that much fun since we’ve been in India: indeed, perhaps since our...
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In a way, it was just another experience with an Indian call center. But for the first time, and quite possibly not the last, I was calling the Indian call center...
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So we’ve taught Nicky to play chess.
I’m not sure if it will help him in life, or if it’s any good for us. Sarah worries that we’ve created a monster:...
Ingredients
Marinade:
3 lbs. chicken thigh meat
3 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 cup yogurt
3 tsp minced ginger
3 tsp crushed garlic
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp cumin powder
*1 tsp mace
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp green...
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Christ Church stands in the center of Shimla, its yellow tower stretching up from the ridge like a pale beam of sunlight reaching back for the heavens. The city...
At the perennial center of Christian life and theology is the personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. But how do we establish, nourish, and dwell in this relationship? Christian...
Christian music has always been an important part of both defining and practicing the faith. As the old axiom goes, lex orandi, lex credendi—as we pray, so we worship; so we believe. This is true...
Christians have been using prayer beads for centuries as a tangible aid to their prayers, and a tool to help them enter contemplative space.
In the process of encountering different Christian...
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Our Experience of Hinduism
Experiencing Hinduism through the eyes of our friends Nicky and Amar has been a truly unique and wonderful phenomenon.
The American...
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One of the things I love most about the Church is how I get to be in communion with people I really don't agree with. It is a challenge, yes; perhaps even an...
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Now that I am pursuing seminary work, people have begun to ask me if I am seeking ordination. To be perfectly frank, I do not know. I cannot say where the Lord...
For some Christians, words like "contemplative," "meditation," and "spiritual formation" are considered dangerous New Age ideas. To the extent they are used in Christian environments, they are...
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Learning a new culture is complicated, difficult, and disorienting, and a challenge we don’t often have to face in the United States. Even armed with shiny...
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The hardest place to get to in Delhi is the place that all tourists are encouraged to visit when they arrive: the Government Tourism Office.
The Government Tourism...
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Indian television is amazing. Of the ninety or so channels we get, several are in English, several show Hindi dubbed versions of old American shows, and several...
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I’m beginning to understand the appeal of “distance,” I’m beginning to understand why tourist colonies so often stand a world apart from the place they...
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You can tell a lot about a culture by the way they light off fireworks.
In the US, our fireworks displays are very carefully managed. In most places, amateur...
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The economy may seem bleak in the US, but take heart. Things are worse in India. Last week, the US markets closed about five percent lower. In India, markets lost...
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Here is a short video clip I took while we were on the elephants. It was such a surreal experience, I couldn't help myself. I forgot to put this up yesterday.
Again, I...
The Bible is the book of Christian Scriptures. For Christians, no other book is as sacred, nor as authoritative on details of the Divine. As such, it provides much of the raw material for Christian...
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Here are some pictures, to go along with yesterday's post!
For those of you getting this via email, you'll have to click on the post title to see the pictures.
Enjoy....
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My parents and sister flew into Delhi early on November 21st for a ten-day whirlwind visit to India. We booked an intense and enjoyable tour for them through...
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“I bet the first thing you’ll notice,” my father said, several weeks ago, “is the smell. The smell of India is like nothing else in the world.” Well, we...
The Visible Church
The visible church is the web of Christian denominations, orders, institutions, organizations, schools, missions, and movements that form the machinery and culture of the...
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The range of accommodations we’ve had so far in Delhi has been broad, to say the least. We’ve stayed in three places, and I don’t think we could have picked...
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In America, we love a good “rags to riches” story. We love it when we hear of poor but clever people who work hard and ascend out of their impoverishment to...
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We’ve been spending a lot of time indoors lately. This has been mostly because of illness. We pushed quite hard for my family’s visit, and when that stress was...
As you feel called, we welcome contributions to our development and vision. Our community past, present, and future — people who are invested in us and in our mission — form a big part of the...
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Our train for Shimla left at 5:50 am on Sunday morning. Without us.
It was a little embarrassing. I mean, we weren't even close. I got a sudden shot of adrenaline...
Part of the purpose of our journey is to engage in cross-cultural conversation in an intentional manner, as a form of spiritual exercise, with the intention of growing in our Christian faith.
The...
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It has been wonderful to have our friend Amar with us on our trip to Rishikesh. He has helped us get to know the area, showing us to the landmarks in the local...
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As usual, we decided to go with Albert’s suggestion for a Hindi teacher, and (as usual) we weren’t disappointed.
Robbie came to meet us for the first time last...
Making Christian prayer beads can be as simple as a quick, afternoon project or as complicated as a finely honed skill. I have found that even with no experience, little time, and little...
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This one is worth a thousand and three.
image credit:...
NB: These scribblings and thoughts were composed in the summer of 2008, prior to our departure to India. They are preserved here unedited for archival purposes.
The big question that people ask us...
From Pakistan
A Day in the Life of a Child
Here is a draft of the short movie I put together for the PEB. I follow a day in the life of a child in a Pakistani village.
Indian Stations of the...
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On the menu of the restaurant at Green Hills Cottage is a little illustration of Laxshmi.
“You like Indian gods?” Amar asked me, as pursued the breakfast...
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This year's Good Friday liturgics emanating from the Vatican featured meditations for the Stations of the Cross written by Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil of...
In Paharganj, people keep asking us, "When are you going to leave Delhi?"
We tell them, "We don't know!"
But maybe that time is coming.
Our plans:
Pray.
Go to India.
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The Kashmiris were rather unhappy when we decided not to use their travel booking services. Indeed, by the time we rolled off Main Bazaar, it had escalated to the...
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On Saturday night, our last evening with Grandbunny and Grandpa Ken, we took out the computer and all sat down to watch our wedding video. Usually we just fast...
Nathaniel's Favorite Sites
The Daily Office
Mission St. Clare arranges the Morning and Evening prayer from the Book of Common Prayer. I use a lot of different prayer resources, but this one has...
Preface
The purpose of this page is to produce and index a series of personal reflections on what it means to live a Gospel life in the twenty-first century. These manifestos are works in progress,...
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Besides going to Shimla, Sarah and I didn’t make many plans for Christmas. We knew Shimla would have the advantage of feeling like home—cold, mountainous,...
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Okay, here's a shout-out to our mathematically-inclined readers.
Nathaniel and I found this puzzle in the newspaper yesterday (without an answer, naturally) and spent...
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Thursday night, I matriculated. That's right. I signed my name in the Book, and I'm now officially a Son of the House. Which means, among other things, I now have...
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For me, one of the great unexpected blessings of being married has been the opportunity to meet my extended family again, for the first time.
To be sure, I grew up...
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Here are some pictures from beautiful Shimla. Again, if you are reading over email, you will probably need to click the title to view the...
Research Journal
We intend to situate ourselves in a place with access to good books and interesting people; perhaps a Christian college or seminary. We have identified several promising...
The best way we have found to describe the path we are taking is by combining two widely used terms: missionary and pilgrim.
By invoking these terms, we mean to communicate that our vocation is one...
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Yesterday afternoon we walked down to Lakshman Jhula. It’s the second time we’ve visited. We followed Amar down the road, past stalls and street vendors selling...
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Hi everyone!
You may have noticed the conspicuous lack of posting lately, even from Nathaniel. This is because his family is here to visit, and not only are we trying...
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This weekend I had the privilege of witnessing what may very well have been an historic event. Nashotah House hosted an Anglican-Orthodox Ecumenical conference,...
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We spent yesterday afternoon and evening, and all of today visiting Nashotah House. Nashotah House is an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal seminary in Wisconsin, on my...
Nathaniel Ogden Kidd
b. May 7, 1985
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Nathaniel Ogden Kidd is a thinker and writer from the deserts of...
Ah, Bollywood. The cinema of India.
And yes. India is exactly like a Bollywood movie. Except that there's more dancing.
Nathaniel's Bollywood Favorites
Main Hoon Na
Ram is a buff special agent in...
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I don’t remember why feeding the turtles was so important, but at the time, I couldn’t really think about anything else. I even knew it was illegal, but then,...
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For those of you interested in my (Nathaniel's) ongoing thinking and writing, I've started a new blog: the Oyster Man. The Oyster Man is going to be a miscellany...
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We’ve known that public kissing in India is faux pas, but we didn’t know it was illegal.
Sarah and I are, by nature, law-abiding, ethically upstanding, and...
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There is a new Indian movie coming out called “Hari Puttar.” Warner Brothers sued for copyright infringement, and lost. The headline in the paper this morning...
Here are a couple of older projects that I have pulled off of my computer, that are periodically of interest to particular persons. If you find them interesting, I would love your feedback.
The...
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This afternoon, I ran across some intriguing articles on the present and future face of Christianity from the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. They have...
Food is a wonderful way to share culture and experience. Now that we are back in the States, we're going to try to update our recipe book and get cooking, um, so to speak.
On this page, we want to...
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Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is a relatively small institution situated on a tall hill in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a beautiful campus, with...
The Church is one of the central mysteries of the Christian life. It is, as St. Peter describes, a temple built of "living stones." As the Prophet Isaiah spoke, it is "a house of praise for all...
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On Thursday evening, we rolled into Aliquippa, Pennsylvania to visit the Community of Celebration. This community is historically related to 1970s revival at...
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Main Bazaar from a rooftop café.
Pahar Ganj is an exciting place to sit and watch the world go by. What an assortment of characters make up this little...
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Sarah and I have had a very busy couple of weeks! As the six-month mark of our journey approached, hotel clerks began to ask us about it. (Our visa lasts for ten...
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It started innocently enough.
Maybe inspired by our conversations about various Hindi movies with Nicky and Amar last night, Nathaniel turned the TV on this morning...
India and Pakistan
Wedding Pictures
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Some of you may have been wondering what the fate of this website will be now that we have come back to the US. I am glad to report that, while we are no longer...
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The poverty in Delhi is thick, is heavy—like the dust in the air, like the oppressive heat. It is manifested in bare feet, in unwashed clothing, in wrinkled and...
A Prayer for Nashotah House
Bless, O Lord, this House, set apart to the glory of your great name and the benefit of your Holy Church; and grant that your Name may be worshipped here in truth and...
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It’s fascinating—every single person who has approached us in Shimla has been a trekking or mountaineering guide. We attracted touts in Delhi as well, but...
Nathaniel
Projects are how I interact with the world. I've usually got something new I'm working on independently, even if it doesn't have a practical, tangible, or public incarnation.
I've had a...
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Dear Readers of our Blog,
I have heard rumors that some of you think I do not post enough. Looking through our blog, it is easy to see where this impression comes...
Behind our pilgrimage, evangelism, and writing is a set of edgy theological and theopractical assumptions about the relevance and application of the Christian faith in our world today. Rather than...
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Pushkar is a built on the shores of a sacred lake, an oasis in the Rajastani desert surrounded by a congress of sharp hills. Legend has it that the lake was...
Preface
What I have spelled out on this page are questions that I struggle with and tug at my soul, and the provisional answers that I have been led towards. The process of wrestling with these...
Context
Relevant Scriptures
Parable of the Shrewd Steward Luke 16:1-15
Parable of the Talents Matt. 25:14-30
The Kingdom of God like a Mustard Seed Matt. 13:31-32
Rich Man and the Camel Matt....
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Hindi is a fascinating language. And getting off Main Bazaar (where, in Sahid’s words, “even the dogs speak English”) has only increased my desire to become...
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It has been surreal to watch the Mumbai attacks unfold from within India. For the most part, when something happens in India, we hear more a little more about it...
What can we say in only a few words about what our time in India meant, and how it impacted us?
St. Jonah. Because when we got back, we felt like we had just been vomited up by a...
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On our way across Michigan on morning Thursday morning, (September 11), Sarah and I started scanning through the radio. After listening to a few bad dance songs,...
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The autorickshaw-wallah is a minor lord of the Indian underworld. His travels and his mobility make him well-networked, and well-known amongst those who do things...
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“Now is good time go Rishikesh,” Amar told us. Nicky said “I tell you now, but you go, you see, and then you believe it me.”
I’m not entirely sure why...
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Sarah and I have finally found a used bookstore in Rishikesh. This is a welcome fact: we were beginning to worry that there were no English books in the area that...
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The bronze relief at the front of the church depicted Jesus Christ standing to his waist in the Ganges, his arms outstretched. Peace and fervor lit his eyes, and a...
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Today we went white-water rafting on the Ganges. It was ridiculously fun, although maybe a little sacrilegious. The scenery was beautiful. We floated serenely through...
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It’s never a good sign when your taxi arrives forty-five minutes late and immediately pops open the hood of the car. Albert (probably the only punctual person in...
Sept 5 Departure from WA
Sept 8 Visit Nashotah House
Sept 11 Visit Community of Celebration
Sept 15 Visit Holy Cross
Sept 22 Leave Richmond, VA for India
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And…we’re off!
Summer is behind us, and, after a litany of goodbyes, the pilgrim road before us.
And Nathaniel opened his mouth and prayed, saying,
Gracious...
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I love my wife. I love traveling with her, and adventuring with her. I love learning to listen to her, and I love growing to understand her point of view. I love...
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Sarah and I are studying a little Hindi in the car, and I have been enjoying it immensely. I think our methods of language learning complement each other.
For me,...
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The Road Trip!
A. September 5—An early start from Redmond, WA, and we’re off!
B. After a long day, we spent the night in Bozeman, Montana in the “Bozeman...
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It really began in the late spring/early summer of 2005. Of course, I was a veteran roadtripper before then (a veteran traveler in general), but that trip was the one...
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In honor of our last Hindi lesson today, I thought I would dedicate a post to our teacher, Robby, and some of the funny things he has said. Enjoy!
~
Robby walked into...
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I called Room Service this morning.
Room Service seems to be the specialty of the restaurant in our new hotel. Yesterday morning we ventured up to the roof to the...
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Here’s an interesting question we’ve been throwing around, and I’d love some other opinions on it. What is the difference between a saint and a prophet? Or...
I am 22 years old, and recently graduated with a degree in Mathematics from Colorado College.
I love weddings, bubble tea, long sleeves, breakfast, roadtrips, and bad math jokes. I enjoy...
The purpose of this page is to lay out, in an organized fashion, different books, authors, and people that have shaped my thinking. It is chiefly for my own use, as an inventory of my internal...
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I’ve come across a beautiful treasure in the contemplation of one of our sticky issues—the meaning of missionary work. Theologian Raimon Panikka identifies...
As the spiritual capstone to my college career, I spent a month prayerfully researching the iconography of Shove Chapel at Colorado College. I recognized intuitively that the building that had...
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I think it's high time for some pictures! I haven't taken a lot, mostly having my camera out all the time attracts all sorts of attention. These were taken at Qutb...
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After one (disorienting) week of orientation, and two weeks of classes at Nashotah House, I can report, quite gladly, that we are thoroughly enjoying ourselves....
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“Nice tie.” I hear it probably ten times a day. Everyone on the street wants to compliment my tie. Some people have even offered to buy it.
“Are you here for...
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When we were newly in India, and back at Ajay Guesthouse, the television was a thing of great fascination for us. It seemed unnecessarily and indiscriminately fickle....
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This evening after dinner, Nathaniel and I walked down to the Lake Michigan shore to watch the sunset.
We rolled up our pant legs and waded into the shallow water. The...
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The length of August does well at concealing the fact, but I can now count on my hands the number of days we have remaining until we give up our last vestiges of...
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Sarah and I are now residents of Potlatch, Idaho. Or at least our phone is.
Yes, that’s right, Sarah and I are at last on Skype, the famed internet phone...
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"In the beginning was the blog."
—About 4,000 extremely clever bloggers
By design, this little website has several interrelated components.
Information about...
Not everyone is called to broaden the scope of their contemplative practice. For some, a life following the prescribed regiment of a specific denomination and community will be spiritually...
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One of Delhi’s many surprises for us over the first few days of our explorations has been the density and diversity of its animal life. Creatures of all shapes,...
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The Dussera Festival
On my Hindi teaching computer program, “Magic Guru,” going to the fair is such a calm, joyful, and almost quaint experience. “Neal has...
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Describing our reasons for going to India to our friends and family back home was difficult. Sharing them with people we meet in India has, thus far, been...
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“Are you a doctor?” he asked me.
Part of me wanted to continue on, to pretend I hadn’t heard. Sarah had already been waiting for me in the room for several...
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One of the things we often forget when we talk about being “born again” is what an incredibly unpleasant experience it is to be born the first time. After the...
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Yesterday, we took the ferry across Lake Michigan—from Milwaukee to Muskegon.
Like many waterfront communities, the city of Milwaukee ends rather abruptly at the...
Understanding of what "missionary work" is and means has evolved through the centuries, and continues to evolve. The purpose of this page is to ask some interesting questions about missions work...
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On Saturday afternoon, we pulled off the road somewhere in Pennsylvania to switch drivers. Sarah took the series of turns she thought would be easiest to reverse...
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On Tuesday night, we put Lydia on her plane bound back for America, thus closing another chapter in our India venture. We will be spending the next several days in...
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The Fortune Walla
We first encountered the fortune teller at the Grand Sindhi, on the same night we had our first dinner with Amar. It was toward the end of our...
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Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Queenship of Mary. Its placement on August 22 makes it the completion of the octave following the Feast of the Assumption...
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The winds are changing…
I’ve fallen back into a normal sleep cycle, which means I have to do my writing during the day. Since it isn’t particularly safe for...
Introduction
Our actions are rooted in a set of assumptions about what is good, what is right, what is beautiful, and what is valuable that we have pieced together through the principles of our...
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We first met Sashi one morning after breakfast, as we left the Grand Sindhi Restaurant. He was sitting outside by the road with three or four of his...
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The other day at the Internet Cafe, I broke a 50 rupee note. Literally. I was taking it out of my hot and sweaty money pouch, and it just ripped in half....
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Energized by the beautiful moments of Tuesday evening, yesterday Sarah and I hit the streets wearing a newfound spirit of openness and friendliness like a big...
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Sarah's friend Lydia is visiting us for the month of January. We have sketched out a loose itinerary; something that won't be hardcore tourism, but will also give...
One of the great issues we are tackling in the course of our journey is this question of pilgrimage. On this page, we want to discuss these issues as they arise. We expect that our answers to these...
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Another day on Main Bazaar. Nathaniel and I woke up leisurely, went downstairs for breakfast, used the internet. We dutifully applied our DEET mosquito repellent,...
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“I have something for you,” Nicky said, as we sat down on the curb to wait for chai, “Some the string.”
He pulled from his pocket two lengths of nylon...
We live in a strange and turbulent time. Our culture and way of life are changing rapidly, and, if anything, this change is guaranteed to accelerate. This reality offers two wonderful opportunities...
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Shimla is going weird.
It all started the day after Christmas. In the courtyard of Christ Church, Christmas decorations continued going up! A large fabric entryway...
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We are drawn to India by the stories.
There is, first of all, my story. My mother was born to missionary parents in Taxila, and raised in the Pakistani Punjab. I grew up tasting Indian culture in...
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“Now time of year, too many foreign people they come to Rishikesh to study yoga,” Albert told us. “Local people, they are not interested in the yoga, but all...
