Safarnameh

Greetings from the sweet, sunny south! We arrived home safely on May 7, and our long 24 hours of flying went flawlessly. Stayed tuned, we...

It has been an interesting couple of weeks for the world. Hillary won the Pennsylvania primary, Mikail Gorbachev publicly professed his fai...

Qom is a province as well as a city. Set in Iran’s central plateau, the province of Qom boasts more than 250 villages within four counties ...

Happy New Year, Happy Easter and Happy Passover! We are now back in Qom after a lovely nine day holiday in Istanbul and other towns along t...

Happy New Year! With the spring equinox this week, the Persian New Year – 1387- arrives. No Ruz, as it’s called, is officially a five day ...

Today was a bad chador day. Riding in the elevator to our class room at the Institute, I checked the small mirror on the wall. “Look,” I s...

The young women were sitting on the couch across from me. We had just met that evening and we found that they both were working on their ma...

Part one: Welcome to winter! Qom has spent all of January and the early part of February in the “ice box.” Frigid temperatures (12 or 13 d...

Suddenly our desert world has become white. Three men are on the roof of our apartment building tossing heavy snow over the side. The high...

Sermon for the International English Church Christmas Day 2007 We interrupt this regular programming for a newsbreak. This is an impo...