What i took away from witnessing the broken climbers in Moshi was this: *Everything is easy until it isn't.*

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.

I will both lay me down in peace and sleep: for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety.

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good.

The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of

There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.