What can be said about a bar of soap and our faith and relation to the world around us?
Claudio Oliver has spent 20 years working with the urban poor, and on community development, dental and medical projects, team equipping, and teaching in Curitiba, Brazil.
He shares just a few of the reflections one small bar of soap can spark — spiritual, sociologic, entropologic and ecologic.
Continue reading The parable of the bar of soap
Laurie and I are getting excited as our expectancy grows, just counting down the days till we hope to have our foster-parent certification, followed by more waiting till we get the call that we have a foster child waiting for us.
Over the Thanksgiving break we did a little shopping and purchased a brand new crib/toddler bed for our expected little one.
Here are some of the highlights you likely missed hearing about during the month of November thanks to my online siesta.
Continue reading The month of November
Got a craving to cook Sunday night and decided to give my hand at some salisbury steak — aka the poor man’s steak and one of my favorite cafeteria meals while growing up.
Yup. I’m the odd one that actually enjoyed salisbury steak from the school cafeteria. It was one of the top cafeteria meals, alongside the rectangular slices of pizza and the giant fried burritos.
Continue reading Homemade salisbury steak
With the release of St. Peter’s Brewery just around the corner (you’ll be able to purchase the Amazon Kindle version on Dec. 1), I’d love to get your help in spreading the word about the book.
There are a couple of ways you can help spread the word about St. Peter’s Brewery.
Continue reading Help share St. Peter’s Brewery
Well, the book is basically finished.
Other than finalizing the cover, I think everything is ready to go to the press. In fact, I plan on releasing a version for Amazon’s Kindle next Tuesday – Dec. 1. So if you have a Kindle, or their desktop software, you’ll be able to purchase a copy of the book directly from Amazon for $8.99.
Continue reading Sticking my toes back in the water
