So excited to share with you the cover design of Messianic Reveal! Electronic release in November to be followed by bookstore rollout in February. It is happening!
Writing this novel, the first of three (so far) enabled me to share snippets of my experiences and observations of my twenty year sojourn in the Middle East. I’d love to take credit for the story, but honestly and mysteriously, it [...]
Key Points: Embassy Move
May Whatever, 2020. We’re now in May, or what I choose to simply note as March 3.0 given the COVID-19 blur and blend of days. I write this from the Middle East, sadly as we burn through a seemingly spectacular spring [...]
Key Point: Happy Empty Tomb!
Celebrating Easter reminds me of my first visit to Jerusalem while traveling with my wife and children. I was eager to take in all the sites and connect to the city that so impacted the world. Seems that every rock, [...]
Key Points.
If you’ll allow a non-COVID-19 message, for my own sanity, I’d like to go back to a less complicated reality, that of elusive peace in the Middle East (sarcasm). I’ve been pondering key events over the last hundred years that have [...]
Prologue: 1979—Chaos in the Middle East
Iran 1979. On November 4, 1979, an angry mob of Iranian students, stoked by the Iranian Islamic Revolution that took place earlier in the year, ransacked the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held sixty-six American diplomats and citizens hostage for [...]