Missionary Blogs

Time for another virtual update on education life in the Dominican Republic. A quick one but a newsy and important one, nevertheless. The Diocesan Department of Episcopal Education continues to wrestle with challenges posed by ... read more

Fifty days ago, I woke up to the news that my neighborhood Muttrah had been identified as the epicenter of COVID-19 in Oman and thus would be isolated from the rest of the country until ... read more

I’m rereading Plato’s Republic for a little consolation during this time. I had forgotten the passage about the philosopher dog in Book Two. Here is the passage about the need for guardians to be ... read more

As with many people in this COVID lockdown, I am losing track of time. Every once in a while I am jolted into the realization that time is passing. Once it was a Sunday morning, ... read more

Going online for the first time this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic drew a record enrollment to the Mission Formation Program offered by the Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN). “Last year we were delighted ... read more

This is one in a series of posts about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global mission.  ‘All of our people are safe and well,’ said Mission Personnel Officer Elizabeth Boe in an ... read more

I have been back in Oklahoma for about a month now. I have been really enjoying my time at home, but I think ... read more

Richard on the Cardo in ancient Sepphoris, up in the Galilee near Nazareth (2014) Richard Hall was a loving and ... read more

Time to post a second update on how the pandemic has affected our educational mission to the Dominican Republic. It seemed only fair to title this one “meanwhile”, in Spanish. I thought about a different ... read more

This post is one in a series exploring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global mission.  ‘Every team scheduled from March through June has canceled,’ said Bill Kunkle, executive director of the Dominican ... read more

It is Holy Saturday, 11 April, 2020.  A pause in the pace of life, on many levels. So much has happened since our last posts, in early January, that I am embarrassed even to try ... read more

Pandemic.  Covid 19.  Social and/or physical distancing.  The stalled economy.  I have no new or creative thoughts to share on these topics.  That being said, I encourage anyone reading this to look elsewhere for public ... read more

I am hunkered-down in Lincoln, Nebraska, observing the many new ways of doing things that the Coronavirus pandemic has forced upon our many school systems. Face-to-face instruction indefinitely postponed; athletics suspended; even standardized testing has ... read more

Hello all! As you may already know, last night South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa announced a 21 day national lockdown starting on Thursday. This means that almost everything is shutting down, and I’ll be required ... read more

Hello everyone, This is Pete’s friend and website admin Holly. Pete came home early from Tanzania due to the coronavirus. Pete has been traveling since early Friday morning, and is now finally home, in quarantine ... read more