Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

“You’re going to a lot of places where they don’t value human life like we do.”

Nobody, least of all me, with my conservative Republican roots, my Reformed religion, and my resistance to change, could foresee the unintended truth of that statement.  A statement we heard on numerous occasions as we prepared for our journey.

We learn that as far as joy is concerned, more is less.  The farther we travel into worlds where less stuff drives people’s lives, the more joy there is.

We also learn that fear of the world makes us prisoners of our borders, and grow a healthy suspicion of the proponents of that fear.

This column, and this site, are created for the purpose of discussing four and a half years of living outside of the United States, under the umbrellas of different cultures, different religions, and different propaganda than we are used to at home.  One thing is clear, the world we experienced is different than the world as it’s presented inside our own borders.

Portions of this site remain under construction, with the pages for Passages, and a number of the Destinations to follow shortly; I apologize for that.  I invite you to navigate using the links, I think I have most of them working now, at the side of the page.  A good place to start is the page entitled A Home Page.