Posts Tagged ‘choices’

This is a cure?

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Guanano children

Guanano children

If the cure is worse than the disease, is it really a cure?

Or let me put it this way …

A Guanano woman wanted an end to the yelling matches she and her husband were having over their finances. So she went to a “chanter.”

Guananos traditionally go to chanters with their problems. The chanters perform an incantation and – the Guananos believe – influence the situation (more…)

Sometimes there’s no good choice

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

We face choices every day … but sometimes it seems like you don’t have a good one. Even when things seem obvious at first. And that seems to happen to missionaries overseas a bit more.

For example … (more…)