I’ve had a really hectic week here in Curitiba, Brazil. The school I’ve been attending has been non-stop, beginning at 7:45am and going to 10:00pm each day. Typically we’ve not gotten back to our room before midnight. I was happy to have Sunday off. We slept late, went to a local mall then had a [...]

One of the characteristics of the training I’m participating in here in Brazil is it’s communal living environment. We are forced to live in a community, sharing resources and space. The experience is designed to help us be better counselors, to be more attuned to the needs, and quirks, of others, especially strangers we come [...]

I’m in south Brazil in a training class for spiritual counseling and inner healing. Though I have quite a bit of experience working in the cross-cultural setting of Brazil, there are still times where I’m caught off-guard. This morning was a good example. The fellow in front of me in the breakfast line gets a [...]

I’m on my way to Brazil today and for the first time in all my years of going there, I’m not going to Ceará where I always go. I’m headed to the south, the deep south. Destination: Curitiba, Paraná. Also affectionately known as “Pine Nut Land,” Curitiba was rated by Reader’s Digest as the best [...]

…this is only a simple thing for the Lord, for he will make you victorious over the army of Moab! You will conquer the best of their towns, even the fortified ones. You will cut down all their good trees, stop up all their springs, and ruin all their good land with stones. It seems that [...]

I met a band in south Brazil two years ago online. I was looking for some music videos to possibly use in an upcoming trip we were planning to Brazil and came across this band called “Megafone.” I managed to contact them via email, we struck up a conversation, and the end result was that [...]

One of the principal newspapers in Fortaleza, O Povo, ran an article this week stating that the agricultural economy of the state was in a season of “thin cows.” Because of the cyclical droughts that hit the region, and the affect they have on the dairy farmers, it has become popular to use the term [...]

There are times I feel so helpless that I could cry. I don’t particularly care for those moments and, admittedly, they are not common. When they come, however, they are intense. Yesterday was one of those occasions. I received an email from pastor Danilo in Ubajara, Brazil. Ever since he renounced the Igreja Mundial Renovada [...]