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Bravo, Kuwait, for the first election in years, supplying Kuwait with what the New York Times describes as a "robust" collection of representatives. As we know, democracy is messy. It is often compared to sausage making - you don't want to know what goes into it. Having an autocratic leader, however, leads to increasing gaps…

Nothing opens doors for evangelism like need-meeting ministries, including prolife ones.

Nothing opens doors for evangelism like need-meeting ministries, including prolife ones.

Assistant Professor Melinda Heinz has been hosting "death cafés" in the hopes that these events will make others more comfortable discussing death.

Our morning was actually more relaxed than we thought. Our departure from the hotel was much later, so we had time to get our bags out into the hall and even to have breakfast and brush our teeth before meeting up at the Viking desk and boarding the bus with our luggage. We had made…

An Even Better Day Than We Had Planned We woke up fresh and decided to walk to Prague Castle from Clock Tower Square. We had a lavish buffet breakfast with friends departing very early the next morning, and then we headed out to find Bus 194, which came within moments. Our intention was to get…

Bags outside the door by 0645, down to breakfast, back to the room to brush teeth, and get ready for the bus ride to Prague. It was a longer ride than I had anticipated, through snowy, icy roads and I regretted having both orange juice AND coffee with breakfast. I was eager to get off…

We spent so many hours planning our time in Berlin, only to realize no matter how many hours we stayed up, we could never do it all. We looked at each other and laughed, knowing a great part of the fun of this trip had been the anticipation and the planning. We actually did the…

We left Torgau early in the morning cruising slowly through the snowy landscape to Meissen, with an arrival just after lunch. We are all delighted for the opportunity to catch up - re-organize our suitcases, catch up on e-mails, just watch the Elbe drift by - so very rural, all the way. Churches. Monasteries. Fields.…

We slept well, except for that wide-awake part around 1:30 a.m., but we got back to sleep and then nearly died trying to get up at 7:00 a.m. for a 7:30 breakfast and our morning tour of Berlin. We were so tempted to just skip it, but we didn’t. I know you will ask, looking at…