Archives for 2012:
We mourn the death of this precious life and grieve with her family. May India hear the cries of her daughters, including those who are tormented daily in the cages of the Red Light District. We figh [...]
During Christmas we celebrate one of the most profound and mysterious events in all of creation: God himself, the Alpha and the Omega, the omniscient, the omnipotent, the omnipresent, the one who spok [...]
Often we hear about the physical rescue of a woman or child from the horrors of the red light districts, and we rejoice, and we should; however, that physical rescue is the first of many other “resc [...]
This isn’t the way I planned it, God. Not at all. My child being born in a stable? This isn’t the way I thought it would be. A cave with sheep and donkeys, hay and straw? My wife giving birth with [...]
From the first day of stepping foot on the streets at Kamathipura and New Bombay, there was perhaps no greater emotion than rage that had engulfed my heart and mind. If it were up to me, I would [...]
“Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging thr [...]
Struggle as they did, there were not enough hours to work for Karthik’s parents to put enough food on the table for Karthik and his 6 brothers and sisters. It came to a point where the decision was [...]
As I sit down to write, a very familiar song plays “randomly” from the Pandora station on my iPod. The song takes me back about six years, when “Came to the Rescue” played every night before [...]
“Imagine that Robert E. Lee’s staff officer had not lost his three cigars in 1862. Imagine that the general’s Antietam battle plans, which were wrapped around those cigars, hadn’t wound up [...]
We stood on a busy street surrounded by the bustle of activity as the city prepared for the evening rush. The streets teemed with life as buses and rickshaws attempted to share the road with stray dog [...]