Looking from here one sees a rapidly changing kaleidoscope of bright colours and intense experiences. Ted Lankester paints a picture of change in Asia that in some ways has gone full circle and also of the prognosis for world health that in a few years has changed from optimism to gloom...
Forty-five years ago my father-in-law Dr. Jim Broomhall gave the Maxwell Memorial Lecture under the title 'Pioneering Today'. He, his wife, four children and colleague had just been chased from a wild and remote slave kingdom in the Great Cold Mountains of eastern Asia. For four years this group of...
Christians in Healthcare (CHC) was established in 1987 to try to help all Christians working in healthcare, regardless of their status, to be more effective in their day to day witness at work. It seeks to encourage the setting up of fellowship meetings in hospitals in which all Christians...
Mandi Dabwali is a town on the border of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan and an important trading centre for all three states. The main source of income in the region is agriculture, and as the term 'Mandi' signifies, there is a large grain market in the town. The local school was...
Nepalgunj. People love it or hate it, and I think I'm beginning to love it. Well, at least in the cool season. Situated in the terai of west Nepal this bustling town is the very antithesis of most people's ideas of the country. It's hot and noisy, overcrowded, colourful and there's...
Familiarity is not lost with mere distance. Circumstance and time is the key though Einstein might have something to say about that - I never could avoid dropping that 'relativity' word into every conversation. Talk about smug. Anyway, what I mean is here's me 25,000 feet up en route to...