It was 2006 and Karol and Mike and their three children had gone to Ecuador, where they were serving with a mission at Shell. The mission...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   In the film  Yesterday,  would-be rocker Jack Malik awakens in the hospital after a bad traffic...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection) A dead end can be a negative or a positive, depending on your viewpoint. But when you come upon one unexpectedly, it can mean real trouble.    Whatever you call it—caving, spelunking … crazy—exploring under the earth just  draws  some people. My friend and I were two of those people. We started out walking. Then we had to crouch a bit. Soon enough, we were crawling on all fours. All of this to find the rumored “crystal cave.”   And always moving

In 1985, while we were on furlough, Dr Vida Chenoweth, a translation colleague, was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Vida was an...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   I had a generous weekly allowance when I started high school. It covered school lunches and more. Then...

Joice and I spent two of our summers in New Zealand at Featherston, to the far south of the North Island. I was head of the school and...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   There’s this scene in the film  Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise  where Police Chief Stone (Tom Selleck)...

When I was director of our work in PNG for several years, I had the opportunity to visit many countries where our organization was...

(a Steve Orr Bible reflection)   When the members of rock band Toto first wrote and performed their Number One hit song about Africa,...

During my linguistic studies at the Australian National University, and subsequent field work, I had visited several language areas...