When you think of the Christmas story, who do you think of? Jesus? Mary? Joseph? Shepherds? Angels? Wisemen? All of the above? Others? The miracle we celebrate at Christmas, that of God taking on skin on bones, changed the whole world. Yet when we look at the lives of everyone in that list, each one […]

Well, 2018 didn’t quite look like I had planned, but here is what God decided that this year would look like for me: January – March – I lived and worked among My People of My Country, learning language and culture and building relationships. I was learning how My People live and joining in. In […]

As I’m working on my take-home final exam for my Discourse Analysis class, I thought I should take a break and give you a glimpse into what we’re learning. One thing we talk about in Discourse Analysis is Participant Reference. In regular-people terms, it means, “How do you introduce new characters into your story, keep […]