Goodbye Mary On

Mary On died last Friday. She was 74. Better known as Major Mary, she dedicated her life to the Karen cause. She was only the second woman soldier in the Karen army and a former Chairman of the Karen Refugee Committee.
In her younger years, Mary had regularly risked her life on intelligence gathering missions [...]

And the floodgates of the heavens were opened…

Just a few weeks ago, we were sweating out the heat with officials describing many areas of the country as disaster areas.
Far away, on the other side of the country from Mae Sot, the Mekong River was low enough to make it hard for cargo ships to sail upstream.
But, praise God, for the [...]

You can call me Al

The Reverend Al Sharpton recently took part in a public debate with Christopher Hitchens, a journalist and author of the book, ‘God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything’. The subject, under discussion was ‘Is God great’
While Hitchens pointed to the actions of religious fundamentalists to discredit religion, Sharpton dismissed his arguments with the following:

“We [...]