El Día de Los Muertos

** This is a post from last year as I looked forward to this very special time of year.
This season is probably my favorite season. Autumn, fall- whatever you wish to call it, it’s spectacular. It’s the end of an era, a cycle coming to a close; a season full of cantations and recital, colors [...]

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International Trade Action Day

Here’s some recommended reading for this a very special day:
Witness for Peace Oct. 12th: International Trade Action Day
Jobs erased, farmers displaced.
Environment polluted, democracy diluted.
NAFTA at Fifteen
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My post: 1989-2009 ~ Drugs, Mexico, The Failures of Neoliberalism, & The Beginnings of a Post-Imperial New Era
It’s time for change.

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San Miguel de Allende

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Good-Bye Tlalpan

What started out for Yuli and I as a grueling search for a church home that began in 2007 ended in warm communion. It’s been an immense pleasure to work with the Brednich family, the Henderson family, the Ortega family, the Calderón family, as well as the rest of the bunch this past year. [...]

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1989-2009 ~ Drugs, Mexico, The Failures of Neoliberalism, & The Beginnings of a Post-Imperial New Era

This is entry #8 and the final one in a series of entries that can be found in the category U.S.-Latin American Relations.
The 1980s was a decade decidedly marked with drugs and blood (just rent the movie Scareface).  At the close of the decade the U.S. decided it was time to try direct military [...]

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Tlalpan Update

Greetings from Mexico City,
This is a follow up letter to my Feb. 9th blog post on the happenings in Mexico City and the church plant in Tlalpan, Mexico especially for the congregation La Casita in Searcy, AR and the congregation in Swift Current, Canada that so generously helped my wife and I with monetary contributions [...]

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The Immigrant

Immigrant Rights Sunday is this coming Sunday, May 3rd.  This is a wonderful opportunity to seek out those in our communities that are immigrants and extend our hand to them.  Yet we must first make ourselves aware of their situation and the rights that our land grants them, not neglecting the rights that are to [...]

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Church Happenings in Tlalpan, Mexico City

Thus far into 2009 we can’t complain too much.  Though work is still slow, we’re as busy as ever.  My wife, Yuli, is now in her last semester of her master’s and will become increasingly preoccupied as she continues writing her thesis. And as soon as I finish this post I am going to start [...]

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Troubled Waters

“Water, water everywhere. Not a drop to drink.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 1789
These words came to mind when I heard that Mexico City is having to turn off the water valve this weekend.  Starting Saturday the government will stop the flow of water to nearly half of its citizens.  That [...]

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Holy Pilgrimages

December 12th marks the Day of the Virgin Guadalupe in Mexico.  Schools and places of work dismiss for the day; millions of people enter the capital to pay homage to their beloved; and festivals and parties abound.
The Virgin of Guadalupe is the patron saint of Mexico. According to tradition, She is Maria (Mary) the mother [...]

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