There’s a line out the door at Joshua’s Restaurant

Joshua was a man on a mission. He had a business concept paired up with passion. He wanted to open a restaurant that would introduce his neighbors in his new adopted home in America to the cuisine of his homeland, Basileia. Though his new home was in a large metropolitan city, there were very few [...]

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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part IV

If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’re already familiar with the scene. Early in the twentieth century, western Christian worker E. Stanley Jones developed a friendship with India’s Mahatma Gandhi. On one occasion, Jones took the opportunity to ask Gandhi’s advice as to how Christians could make a more favorable impact upon the [...]

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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part II

As was discussed in an earlier post, we are looking at a conversation involving the premier political and spiritual leader of India of the twentieth century, Mahatma Gandhi. He was asked by the western Christian worker, E. Stanley Jones, if he had any insights as to what Christians could do to present Christianity in a [...]

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A Conversation with Gandhi – Part I

When considering the people of the last century who have influenced the world through their moral and spiritual stature, almost any short list would have to include Gandhi. In fact, although his given name was Mohandas, many knew him as Mahatma, “great soul,” a tribute to the respect in which he was held. He was [...]

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A Love-Hate Relationship

Recently Susan and I sat in on a day-long seminar on HIV/AIDS sponsored by a non-profit group in our community that works with those infected by the HIV virus. We consider ourselves pretty well-informed people, but we learned a lot that day. But one of the most important things we learned was not in the [...]

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