LONG TIME NO SEE!

Oh goodness, it has been such a long time since we have posted! I'm so sorry to everyone, especially if anyone was looking forward to the interviews under the Science! posts. Hopefully we will get to them one day. As this is a volunteer mission site, posting time must fall under that which is labeled "freetime" - something we haven't had much of lately. I am still weeding through one of the interviews. It was a written interview and the fella answered every question under the sun on the first point. Then again on subsequent points. It makes for interesting reading, but very long reading indeed, particularly for a blog site. Ergo, I edit.
Anyway, in other news, we have been very busy with work, sicknesses and other missions and programs. My daughter came down with a version of the flu (which one I don't know and I'm not sure the doctor knew) but she is fine now. Just a high fever, so no worries. But we are always thankful to God for healing!!

In TimorDei news, as we have been busy other places, we realize that this mission and website need to be attended to more readily. So, I am glad to announce that we will be moving over from the 'free blogger' template, which has been wonderful (and I highly recommend it to any and all as need sees fit) to a more capable WordPress site. The layout is completely different, so please don't freak out! Hopefully it is easier to use, navigate and recommend (if ever you felt like doing). As before, anyone is allowed to comment, though foul commentary will be promptly deleted.
We are still filling out many of the pages and hopefully it will continue to grow as we grow. If anyone is interesting in helping out in this endeavor, please let us know and we will be glad to talk to you about it: we need all the help we can get. - Especially as both Dave and I (James aka. Robin) are back to school soon. I'm hoping a good dose of seminary will quell any heresy in me (hehe). Check out the new site HERE. Both sites will stay up and running for another few months and then everything will bleed over there and (hopefully) any links or bookmarks that you had before will be directed to the new site. Our readers may have to do a little work...

Christ the Lord: Road to Cana

I wrote to Anne Rice some time last year after reading Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt and she wrote back right away, busy woman though she be. I cannot tell you how kind and sweet her words are - though, of course, you may know this, she being one of the most gifted writers of our age.
Many know by now what a wonderful story she tells - one that seemed impossible and almost even heretical at first glance. Yet it is masterful and sincere. Ms. Rice bends no corners and takes the Gospels seriously and reverently, throwing in some 'legends' from the Apocrypha, she portrays the life of Christ and makes it so wonderfully tangible. Her conversion bears fruit and I applaud her and thank God for the gifts He has given. I defend her in the midst of many who would condemn.

If you would tear down Ms. Rice for the work she has done, you must tear down the Sistine Chapel as well.

Now what a blessing was the second installment, Road to Cana! The book lasted a few hours in my hands and I lost a night of sleep reading right till morning. It was absolutely compelling. Anne Rice has linked the Gospels together beautifully, made Christ's life so real and immediate - I can almost say as much as the Gospels themselves. I cannot imagine any better way to honor God with one's gifts and hard work than with what she has done here.

The intricacies of the web she has woven, showing the visceral life of our Lord and yet making it so holy, making real and credible the miracles and the (very human) reactions to them, I applaud her. I haven't read anything that fills me with such "a longing to be reunited with something in the universe from which we now feel cut off," something so indescribable since Bunyan or Lewis.

John Akers wrote:
“Where are the creative men and women, the writers, the artists, the filmmakers who will capture the imagination of our confused world in the name of Christ? Where are those who will expose by their work, those vanities and contradictions of our age and affirm with all the skill they can master, that only in Christ are the hidden resources of his wisdom and knowledge?

"Unless we communicate to our generation through the art forms that influence it, our convictions will continue to be judged irrelevant, unworthy of examination, by modern secular man. May God raise up those who will fill the gap”

Thank you Anne Rice for filling that gap and inspiring others to rise up and do so as well.