theology, design and life…
From the monthly archives:
[Warning: This post is somewhat political…][2nd warning: Because of where I’ll be this summer, I am guessing that a majority of my posts are going to be somewhat political…have fun with that…]
Last night, as I walked home from the Internet place (they’re beginning to know as a regular there), I was invited to sit with [...]
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It’s been a long day - and this is the position I’ve been in for most of it. I decided to stay in Dahab and be a bit of a ‘beach bum’ for a few days. It’s an interesting little town - all of the water they have in the city comes right from the [...]
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No, this is no sweet photography trick and I’m not trying anything fancy, this is because the shutter won’t open all the way on the camera. Well, it does now (most of the time). I made the stupid mistake of trying to climb around the rocks with my camera in my hand, and it swung [...]
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This is David. I met David on the bus from Cairo to St. Katherine’s. His father (who is a bus mechanic in Cairo) and he were traveling to St. Katherine’s for the night as well, to climb a different mountain and just get away for the weekend. Out of any Egyptian in Cairo I met, [...]
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Dahab is a diver’s village - there is phenomenal snorkeling all over the area, and so it is filled with divers - who are a pretty interesting group of folks. They all come out at night - it seemed to be a bit of a ghost town when we arrived at around 4pm today. It’s [...]
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Shit. Is anyone else worried for me? (The black stuff is sand).
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[Yes friends...it's the first public outing of "the buff."]
We finally made it to St. Katherine’s Monastery in the middle of the Sinai desert. It was a very hot 8 hour bus ride with no air-conditioning (dad, you’d never make it). We arrived, got checked into our very nice room and then got dinner — and [...]
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So, I needed to buy a bus ticket (pictured above) to St. Katherine’s Monastery for tomorrow morning. Easy enough, right? Well, I was told what to tell the taxi driver to get to the bus station - and I grabbed a taxi, and explained it to him, and I was only 50% sure that he [...]
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This is All Saints Cathedral in Zamalek, the island across the Nile from downtown Cairo, and the church where I met Henrik, the Dutch pastor who is here doing a Ph.D. on interfaith dialogue between Muslims and Christians. The church is very active, hosting a clinic and is very involved with a Sudanese Refugee program. [...]
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My mom wanted to know what my room looked like. I am staying at the Ramses College for Girls; Sarah just laughed when I told her that. But it’s where all the PC(USA) and Lutheran Young Adult Volunteers live, and they were kind enough to put me up for free, so I have been very [...]
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