Dispatches from Brian Stiller

Christianity started in Jerusalem. For many centuries it was concentrated in the West, in Europe and North America. But in the past century the church

  After brief instructions from the Lutheran Archbishop Dietrich Brauer, we processed up the center aisle of the St. Peter-and-St. Paul Lutheran Cathedral in Moscow,

Wes Janzen and I walked the empty Saturday morning streets of Kyiv, turned down Shevchenko Street and into the National Arts building, heading up to

Pakistan got a black eye by instituting blasphemy laws and by a public outcry over its corresponding results. In effect a neighbor can cry out

Driving from Rwanda into Congo is like reading two tales of one border, as a colleague noted. Just in crossing it’s obvious one is leaving

If you are looking for a place to spend winter other than in Arizona or Florida, consider Rwanda. This land of a thousand valleys and

My host touched the ‘down’ button in the elevator of a high-rise apartment. Its door opened and we stepped out into underground parking.  We maneuvered around

Ruth Thomson stepped into society as a debutante in a white gown at the Governor General’s Ball. She was nineteen in 1959, her family part

Do you want to hear a story that will moisten the eye of even the most cynical? This dramatic and hopeful saga is located in

Africa’s Surprise He was the first black person I had ever met. I was a Canadian teenager and it was Sunday night church: time for