Clash of Generations
I’ll never forget the first time I felt completely outdated. We were going as a family to the Mall when my daughters asked me if I was going with the…
Tsunami of Pornography
Visiting Dichato in the south of Chile I was able to see the reconstruction through which this village underwent after the 2010 earthquake tsunami destroyed it. It was stunning to…
Am I a man or a woman?
I was born in the sixties, a time when we were all taught to be a man or a woman, for any other gender alternative was considered a diabolic abnormality.…
Lush Tomatoes
The interior of the Brazilian northeast is a very dry and arid region making it very hard to prepare the land for plantation. For that reason, water reservoirs are built…
Like Salmons
It is fascinating how Salmons as anadromous fishes go back from the sea to the rivers where they were born to spawn. They swim up the river in the opposite…
Load Shedding
Load shedding is the rotative limitation of electric power supply by its provider due to its incapacity to deliver energy to all. This measure is usually taken when the demand…
Jesus in our Town
Some years ago my wife and I fulfilled a long awaited dream to visit Israel. What a privilege to walk where biblical figures did and specially to walk through where…
Rustless Church
In the last book of the bible God defines himself as the “Alpha and the Omega”, that is, the beginning and the end. In other words, God is the past…
Neither Ostrich or Emu
Once visiting the city of Chiclayo in the North of Peru, salvationists took us to see a giant bird farm. There we were able to learn about the habits of…
Power Struggle
My parents pioneered the work of the Salvation Army in Portugal, so I lived in Lisbon exactly in the period of the “carnation revolution”. This is the revolution that on…