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On September 11, 2001, I was one of about thirty Northwest Yearly Meeting pastors at the yearly meeting's annual Focus Conference at a r...

Source: Facebook memes, 2015    ( Part one , last week.) Of all the explanations and excuses I've heard in the last few hours concerning...

Craig Whitlock: "Well over 100,00 Afghans also died in the war." Video screenshot.  Source . Stephen Zunes, coordinator of Middle...

Source .   I spent two nights in a row on airplanes, finally unfolding myself in Moscow last Saturday and flopping my disoriented self into ...

Choir concert ticket: "Sing, Slavic Soul!" Last Sunday, Judy and I rode the subway a couple of times in central Moscow. On our way...

I'm writing this in the waning minutes of Thanksgiving, Moscow time. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving party during the long break betwee...

Judy and I are not usually with our adult kids at Christmas time, so we take liberties with the calendar. The Daily Show 's John Hodgman...

The Russian president's recent visit to Abkhazia (less smoky than Moscow, I'm sure) and the stories about the Russian missiles bein...

"The absence of mercy." This phrase has haunted me ever since I saw it as part of the title of an article on Kyrgyzstan by Natali...

Back in March 2008 , I added a second operating system to this Sony computer I'm using right now. Upon booting up, I could choose betwee...