Connective Visions

The first geocache hunt in Kristiansand, Norway, lands the seeker in church.

In 1988, I made a trip to Europe to visit friends, investigate colleges, and simply travel and see the sights. I picked up my application to the University of Sussex, and after a bit of wandering about England, I went over to The Netherlands and down to Belgium, then on to France, Switzerland, Italy, and [...]

The Easter weekend in Norway is a national holiday, running from Thursday through Monday, over which time even supermarkets close. It came to an end yesterday evening, so the traffic warnings had hit the news headlines Sunday night. Adult citizens who don’t work the holiday weekend (for 100% of their usual wage in additional overtime) [...]

This may prove more of a testimony than a standard blog entry. Ah well. There is time. Thursday, I told a close friend in Norway that I was going to be one of seven preachers delivering sermons on the Seven Last Words of Christ from the cross in our church’s Good Friday service. His reaction [...]

This weekend, I had two occasions to encounter the topic of envy. When that much envy surfaces, it seems time to give it another look – especially when both episodes have, for me, a component of delight, which is not the noticeable offspring of envy. What Is Envy, Really? The first occasion came when friends [...]