In 2009, I brought a very important person to Aleppo. Marshall Vian Summers is the Messenger for the New Message from God, a 9200 page revelation which has been translated into 16 languages (including Arabic) and has students around the world. Together we walked through the Umayyad Mosque, had lunch Read more…
The sky hung low over the rice fields west of Seoul. As our bus jostled back and forth, I watched the Messenger look upon the gray landscape of apartment blocks, construction cranes, highway flyovers and the many, many greenhouses that seemed to fill every space in between. Our bus turned Read more…
The Messenger’s journey to Korea began on a cold October morning in Colorado. His flight would carry him across the Pacific, brushing the norther arctic and taking him over the wilds of Russia and then south to the city of Seoul. We shared the plane from Denver to San Franscisco Read more…
(Part 2 of the Messenger’s Journey to Iran) A tapping sound entered my dreams and I labored in my sleep to make sense of it. There was a man standing in the dark shade of fir trees. Behind him was a hillside of gold aspens and up between the branches Read more…
On a fall evening in 2011, Marshall, Patricia and I walked at 12,300 feet in the hills above Leadville, Colorado. Its a tortured landscape above this former mining town: hewed ridges, residue slides, broken mine equipment and hills that aren’t actually hills, but mine tailings heaped several stories high. The Read more…