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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The Fountain of Neptune in Bologna in the grand plaza.. from the 16th century. The logo for Maserati cars comes from the tip of that trident! 🔱

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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sermon

Help Me in My Weakness

August 15, 2025
Tags: Texas, church, worship, sermon, bible

Interstate Sermon

April 10, 2023
Tags: wisconsin, freeway, sermon, forest, corporations

A Sermon for the Region

October 27, 2022
Tags: dubai, sermon, map, globalization, terrorists

Attending a Pentecostal Church

January 17, 2022
Tags: dubai, church, evangelicalism, sermon, hotel
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The Caliph Projected

May 06, 2020
Tags: London, Ahmadiyya, screens, technology, sermon, disease, globalization
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Preaching about TB

June 30, 2019
Tags: South Africa, disease, church, Anglican, evangelicalism, sermon

Listening to the Khutbah

October 12, 2016
Tags: dearborn, islam, sermon, mosque