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A thousand-year-old church just on the outskirts of our village. Photo credit: Me.
When we were plopped into a tiny village situated on the border of Switzerland and Germany to serve at our mission agency’s regional office, directly across...
Read part 1, in which I agreed to a Himalayan trek without doing any research first.
Read part 2, where half the adventure was simply getting to the trailhead, and where we were already so off-schedule that the sun began to set with us sti...
Judas is frustrated.
The disciples have a glorious, transcendent mission to fulfill, but they’re wasting time threshing grain and grinding it into flour.
The women with them are sorting vegetables.
Baking bread! Sorting vegetables! Coul...
Read Part 1 here.
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11 a.m., October 23, 2013
A Himalayan hillside on the way to our trailhaead
We’d been driving for a long time. Annaliese and I had expect...
5 p.m., October 23
Somewhere in the Himalayan Foothills, Nepal
“Don’t worry, we’re almost there,” Sajit called down the trail for the fourth time in as many hours.
I groaned. To me, “almost there” is what you say when you’ve got maybe fi...
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I've been a journalist and a missionary. Now, I'm a book editor, award-winning photographer, and Getty contributor. I'm writing a dystopian Western series on the side when I'm not failing at gardening. Oh, and I love symphonic heavy metal.
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