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Paparazzi
Paparazzi are relentless and intrusive photographers who follow celebrities and take un-staged and unexpected pictures of them for...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 11, 20233 min read
My Mustache Didn’t Touch the Ground
A Tamil proverb speaks of a proud man who talked arrogantly and never did anything culturally inappropriate or crude. He was a proper...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 10, 20233 min read
Son of a . . .
Muslims find Christians’ claim that Jesus is the Son of God offensive because the Quran says that God couldn’t have a son. “The Messiah,...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 9, 20233 min read
New Wine in Old Wineskins
Nearly 20 years ago, a friend visited me on a Friday morning in Ooty, India. As customary, I offered him a cup of tea. He politely...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 8, 20233 min read
Mistaken Identity
Cary Grant plays a man mistaken for a government agent in the iconic Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest (1959). A mysterious...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 7, 20233 min read
A Noise Louder than a Hammering Roof
In Happy Feet, every emperor penguin tries to attract a mate by singing a unique heart song. If a male’s and a female’s heart song match,...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 6, 20233 min read
Zeal without Wisdom
On the 15th of October 2011, twin sisters, aged 15, and their friend, 13, were killed by a Union Pacific train station in Salt Lake City,...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 5, 20232 min read
Only Nixon Could Go to China
US President Richard Nixon was an anti-Communist. When he visited China in 1972 and met with the Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 4, 20233 min read
Cleansing the House for the Celebration
Passover was a significant festival for the Israelites, remembering and celebrating their departure from slavery in Egypt. Combined with...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 3, 20233 min read
Cowboy Justice!
1883, a prequel to Yellowstone, is a western miniseries. Shea Brannan and Thomas chaperone a group of German and Slavic immigrants from...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Brothers in Arms!
The 1954 movie Sabrina was remade in 1995 with Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear – two polar opposite brothers who fall in love with the...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Jan 1, 20233 min read
Contractual Terminologies
As the Publications Secretaries for Asia Theological Association (ATA), I sign many contracts between publishers, editors, and authors....
Andrew B Spurgeon
Dec 31, 20222 min read
Disappointing Beginnings
Imagine being with the Israelites who left Egypt for the Promised Land. We’ve said goodbyes to our Egyptian friends, sandals on our feet,...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Dec 30, 20223 min read
Who’s on First?
Abbott and Costello, two comedians, had the routine Who’s on First. Lou Costello wanted to be a baseball player, and Bud Abbott wanted...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Dec 29, 20223 min read
Initiation Rites
Vanuatu, a nation in the South Pacific, has 83 islands. One of them is called Pentecost Island. It has one of the strangest initiation...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Dec 28, 20222 min read
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken begins, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both,” and concludes, “I...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Dec 27, 20223 min read
Cousins on a Mission
Hebrew names often have meanings. Adam meant the product of Adamah, “the dust of the ground” (Gen 2:7). He came from the dust (Adamah)...
Andrew B Spurgeon
Dec 26, 20223 min read
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