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Mike on February 4th, 2010

Another note from Stoneworks missionary Liz Hulley – This week, Russia celebrates 20 years of….McDonald’s! I would like to leave the fast-food (health) debate for the moment and comment on the culture implications. This kind of anniversary is interesting when looked at in the light of what was going on the world at the time. [...]

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Mike on December 27th, 2009

Here’s an interesting post from Liz Hulley – I figure a trip to the library is a success if at least one book (out of 5-6) is a good read. This time I enjoyed “Inside Russian Medicine: An American Doctor’s First-Hand Report,” by William A. Knaus, M.D. (New York: Everest House, 1981) The book is [...]

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Mike on November 28th, 2009

This is from Liz Hulley, a friend and co-worker here in St. Pete. She has a great blog; I encourage you to visit it. ——— Who likes to get up on a cold, dark morning? Not me…although in the summer I would probably find another excuse. But as I was going about my morning routine, [...]

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Mike on November 1st, 2009

Here is another encouraging post from Liz Hulley, a Stoneworks missionary in St. Petersburg – —————————– Looking back at previous blog posts, I noticed that I often post something from Oswald Chambers in October. I wonder why that is. Perhaps the autumn brings about a kind of desperation that makes me reach for something uplifting. [...]

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Mike on August 7th, 2009

Here is another thoughtful post from Liz Hulley: A recent New York Times article described the problem of male rape in Congo. The piece was accompanied by photographs of four of the victims, framed by striking blue backgrounds. The caption read, “… All are Congolese men who were recently raped and agreed to be photographed.”* [...]

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Mike on June 26th, 2009

Another good post by Liz Hulley: I was very amused that my automatic Russian-English dictionary correctly translated the title of this post when my mouse hovered over it. The dictionary is rather incomplete and sometime supplies the wrong contextual definition, or it recognizes only the lexical form and won’t translate if word appears in a [...]

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Mike on February 28th, 2009

Here’s another good post from Liz Hulley — In a recent series on dealing with habitual sin, our pastor mentioned that “to confess,” in the original, means “to say the same thing.” Today I was trying to translate a passage from John 1 (with the help of a dictionary), and I ran into a Greek [...]

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