Crashing a funeral in Vietnam
CAN THO, VIETNAM — Suppose you were expecting a visitor you’ve never met from a faraway country. And suppose that, just before this person showed…
Southeast Asia
Changing verb tenses — and lives
CAN THO, VIETNAM — A chance encounter resulted in her husband’s death. Four decades later, another chance meeting led to her granddaughter’s rebirth — and…
Longtime missionary arrested on solicitation of prostitution charge
Police in Wichita Falls, Texas, have arrested longtime missionary Dennis Cady on a charge of soliciting prostitution. The Christian Chronicle has reported multiple times on…
Did Jesus come to bring division?
SINGAPORE — A single Bible verse can ruin a perfectly good sermon. A few months back, minister Mit Vikraman invited me to this bustling, business-minded…
Bricks and blessings
SINGAPORE — What was supposed to be a surprise going-away party for Dave Hogan turned out to be neither. He found out about the surprise.…
The gospel of Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM — Crowds of hundreds sat on the tennis courts of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. They waited, desperate to board…
Indonesia’s Christian island
GUNUNGSITOLI, INDONESIA — A mangled, rusty bicycle stands as a memorial outside the Nias Heritage Museum. Behind it, two colorful concrete signs bear two terrible…
Surrounded by mosques
BEKASI, INDONESIA — At 4:44 a.m., the calls to prayer begin. They come from everywhere, it seems, in a cacophonous variety of tones and pitches.…
‘Living hope’ in a Muslim land
SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA — The Seremban Church of Christ meets in a predominantly Muslim nation with strict anti-conversion laws. But it doesn’t meet in secret. Far…
Persecuted Christians pour out their hearts
SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA — Who or what is God in this season? Ninety-nine Christians from across Southeast Asia pondered that question as they stared at blank…
