by Teri Ong I experienced a profound moment of self-realization last Friday. Shock of self-realization might be more accurate. The cause? Photographs– recent photographs– photographs taken by a professional photographer who came with her daughter on our London tour last November. Photographs taken barely three months ago. That means– if you haven’t guessed– that they show me as I really am – right now! I wasn’t the only group member electro-shocked to a higher level of consciousness by the candid and, yes, graphic pictures of old age. My husband realized that he hasn’t had a “good hair day” in over […]

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Counter-cultures by Teri Ong London is certainly a place that is at once multi-cultural and cross-cultural. We met a woman from an eastern European country who had learned English from an American teacher. As a shop keeper in London, she was faced with the difficulty of not only translating her thoughts into English– but even further into “English English.”– and even further, of making herself understood with her own particular national accent in a society full of a multiplicity of national accents. Christians are citizens of God’s kingdom, and more specifically, ambassadors for God’s Kingdom in a foreign land. We […]

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