Mountainside Prayers: Change Their Story

Written by Meaghan Hartman Mountains have stories. They overlook cities and towns; they see war, destruction and reconstruction.  Some testify to huge cataclysmic events — a volcanic eruption or a flood halted by the mountain’s base. Mountains create natural borders for nations and peoples; they cause disruption in travelling, expansion and exploring.  For centuries, mountains…

A Connection Par Hasard

By David Steven I’ll never forget meeting a boy named Andreas nearly forty-three years ago. We were both only seventeen at the time. He from Sweden and I from the United States, we met at an Operation Mobilization conference near Brussels, Belgium. Young, immature, and struggling with culture shock, we both headed into France for…