Doyle's Blog

Spring graduation is the day after tomorrow. I've been asked to do the invocation and benediction. For the latter, I'm using Psalm 2...

This morning, on my walk to work, I suddenly realized what the title of my autobiography needs to be: "God knows what he's doing....

For the past several months I've been eating the same dish for lunch at least five days out of every seven. It's a recipe that has a...

Quick crackpot analogy that just hit me this morning. Listening is dancing. Some people aren't any good at dancing, and they know it. ...

For quite a long time I've taught my interpersonal communication students that language is a scalpel: speakers and writers can use it fo...

Spotted on the way to the airport:  tuk-tuk  driver and copilot.  

Last full day in Cambodia, first day of transitioning back to life in the United States. We started at a place that opened its first shop in...

This morning we worshipped at Rahab's Church in S. P., and then we said goodbye.  Barang led worship and Pastor Chantha preached. The se...

This morning, we threw a party for the girls at Agape Restoration House. We set up stations, including a photo booth, a visor-decorating sta...

Today was our last day at Rahab's House, which was happy-sad. The storytelling students told their stories. Barang and Sakha were both v...

God has been very merciful to me in one specific way: I haven't gotten sick. No upset stomach, no fever, nothing. I'm one of the few...

I had another couple of good talks today. One young man named Chetra shared his testimony with me, and asked that I pray for his wife, who h...

I'll get right to two  prayer requests . Today I made a friend named Keo, which rhymes with Ohio, and he's remarkable. He's a se...

Day one at  Rahab's House  in S. P. On a scale of one to ten, I give it a 7.8. It wasn't great, wasn't even solidly good, but it...

So I know I have a striking appearance, and I'm quite used to being recognized when I return to places: the bald head plus the long goat...

On Tuesday of this week, we started the day at Rapha House, but then had lunch at  Viva  in Siem Reap, and I made a discovery:  ហហ្មុកត្រី, ...

I was a World War Two buff for most of my childhood, so I read a lot of written accounts of the Holocaust. Then, in 1997, when I was closing...

Today was the last of the interior travel days. In the morning, we visited  Angkor Silk Farm , where they grow, dye and weave silk. Here are...

Would've posted this yesterday, but a storm knocked out the power and the WiFi. The power came back on almost immediately, but the WiFi ...

Today was a travel day: Battambang to Siem Reap. Ordinarily, we would make the trip by boat, but  Cambodia is suffering from a drought of hi...

Getting from place to place is a big part of each day, and a big part of the entire experience. The truck in the second picture down in  Day...

Eating has been nothing but a pleasure, which is both wonderful and troubling. The meals are absurdly cheap, but the quality is better than ...

The Gospel is all about repentance, and the Bible is full of stories of people getting it right on the second try:  Jacob telling his right ...