During my last trip to South Africa, I had a chance to talk with Irene at her home in the White squatter camp. The interview that I filmed will be ready to see later, but I discovered something that we can all do quickly. Irene’s 15th birthday is 22 December. I would like us…
Hi all, In South Africa, internet access is difficult and limited. So I will not be able to post many comments for the next week. Please carry on without me, as I know you can. Perhaps those who are fearless in their exegesis will honor all of us with guidance in my written absence.
It’s official. Matt and I have decided to cancel the teaching tour to Israel scheduled June 5-15, 2013. This is NOT due to the current unrest in Israel. It is simply the result of not having enough participants for that time. We will try to schedule something for early 2014, probably around March-April. So, look…
To all my readers in the Great Northwest. At the gracious invitation of Beth Tikvah, I will be back in the Seattle area on June 29, 2013. This allows me to meet with other groups around the Northwest at a much lower expense since I will be there for the conference/speaking at Beth Tikvah. IF…
After I posted my opinion about the re-election of Obama, I started getting emails from outside the community. Most were courteous disagreement, although more than one called me a racist. But one in particular came from a Ph.D. Hispanic Cuban immigrant who said he went to seminary and taught history for 30 years at a…
For everyone who is following the story about Irene, please read. 1. I will be back in South Africa in about 10 days. I am planning to see Irene and her family and do more interviews and video 2. IF YOU MADE ANY CONTRIBUTION toward Irene’s needs, PLEASE SEND ME A SMALL PICTURE OF YOURSELF…
For all of you who have expressed interest in going to Israel with Matt Woodward and me in June of 2013, the DEADLINE is here. If you are actually going, you need to contact Linda Moore at Journeys Unlimited NO LATER THAN 5PM EST on NOVEMBER 30, the last business day of November. Only the…
In Hebrew there are really only two verb tenses; complete actions and incomplete actions. That’s because Hebrew “sees” the world with a completely different framework than Indo-European languages. It sees the world in terms of actions rather than time. Our Indo-European languages offer many more shades of meaning in verbs. We have past, present and…
While I don’t usually talk about politics because my non-profit status prohibits it, it seems to me that the re-election of Obama marks a watershed in the American culture. I can’t help but notice the historical precedent. Alexander Tyler wrote about the Athenian Empire nearly 2500 years ago, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of…
