by Robert Parham | Dec 21, 2010 | Opinion
Christmas is about the manger of mystery, the pilgrimage of astronomers, the curiosity of shepherds, the joyful angels, the paranoid ruler, the surefooted faithfulness of Mary and Joseph, God’s decisiveness. We all know the story. We are so familiar with the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 17, 2010 | Opinion
When I entered the hotel lobby on the first morning of a Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania for the distribution of mosquito-repellent nets, I heard the sound system playing “Silent Night” by an American artist and felt the needed breeze from the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 14, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the third of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Read the first here and the second here. Tanzania is a nation of contrasts, having the highest mountain in Africa – Mount Kilimanjaro – on one side of the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 10, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the second of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Read the first here. A mosquito-repellent net now protects a Tanzanian family in which the father bears the Arabic name of Jesus, the mother bears the name...
by Robert Parham | Dec 8, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first of several dispatches on the Muslim-Baptist mission trip to Tanzania. Three Oklahomans – two Baptists and a Muslim – left behind that state’s infectious fear of Islam to combat the infectious disease of malaria in...
