The Anti-Manichaeist

I’ve been busy interviewing people, transcribing the interviews, which takes an awful amount of time when people speak with strong accents that are harder to understand. My interviews include college students that became first interested in politics because of the Orange Revolution and who now care more about their country, rather than just their […]

I had the chance to interview a young Ukrainian male who is an accounting student and participated in the Orange Revolution. He is an independent Baptist and quite an interesting fellow, very much interested in Economics and History and what-not.
He described how the different Churches in Ukraine played a huge role in […]

I’m on a limited time, using internet cafes and depending on the good graces of my hosts, family friends, to take me to the cafe and back for now. And so I won’t be posting or emailiing pics of my trips in the near future, in any likelihood.
Here in Ukraine, I am staying with […]

I went to a graduation ceremony today for the final year of required schooling in Sweden. The Swedish educational system is different from the US system, it´s more like the German system. The students all wore caps that are like a sea captain`s cap. They are white on top with a black […]

I was reading about how the group SPEAK was organized in England and Sweden and the Netherlands to address the apathy among the churches to matters of Justice. It made me think about my own reluctance to use the word justice. Part of it stems from my professional conservativism I learned when I was trained […]

Today, at the end of the year graduation ceremony, Björn Cedersjö, a lecturer in ethics and head of the theology department, wore a Blues Brother tie that said, “We’re on a Mission from God!” I’m so sorry I didn’t get a photo, but I thought it was an interesting cultural tidbit to pass along. […]

Death to the witness of USAmerican Christian to the rest of the world, including those who live under the rule of Islam. I particularly have in mind here our addiction to the freedoms made possible by cheap oil and the absence of gasoline taxes such as exist in Europe. Here in Sweden, Gasoline is three […]

Last night I watched a surrealistic swedish film called Songs from the Second Floor. It takes an ironic apocalyptic view of where the hedonistic materialism of the western world is taking us and how that nice person Jesus just doesn’t really fit in the increasingly paganistic world(in Sweden/Europe). Although, it ends on a […]

I posted earlier about the Swedish film Miffo. Today, I had lunch with a group of Swedish Lutheran ministers and Seminarians. I had a conversation with the Lutheran minister who is responsible for the Orebro university. It was good talking with him to get another perspective on Sweden. He and his […]

As you may know, the U.S. Navy has used the eastern part of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a practice bombing range. This has caused some very serious contamination and there is now a proposal to measure whether the metal contamination has been caused by the Navy or may be natural to […]