3:23 PM Tonight we’re eating supper at Peter’s Tex-Mex Grill, the best Tex-Mex restaurant in Beijing, which is presumably a small category. 3:16 PM We spent last night at the Holiday Inn Chang An West. I think it was a very nice hotel but we were so tired that we didn’t have a chance to enjoy much of it. I …
The TV at the Beijing hotel where we are staying tonight has about 45 channels. Most are Chinese, of course, and it seems as if you can find counterparts for every sort of channel you find on an American cable system, including game shows, soap operas, music videos, movie channels, and so on. There are a few English-languag …
7:13 PM The weather in Buffalo changed dramatically overnight. A cold front hit, dropping temps into the low 20s. The day started with rain that turned to blowing snow and ice. The low tonight should be around 17.7:06 PM Last year I made a list of all the last-second things that had to be done before leaving for China the n …
3:46 PM I’m writing this note from the lobby of the Holiday Inn somewhere east of Buffalo, New York. Buffalo in January is supposed to be cold and snowy. Very snowy. Not this year. The weather here is a lot like Tupelo, a little colder but not much. I didn’t see a bit of snow on the ground as the plane landed.I& …
6:54 PM We’re in the countdown for our China trip. Here’s the latest Beijing weather forecast. That’s a lot colder than Tupelo. We heard (via IM from Mark) that Nick arrived in China early this morning. But he forgot to pack his shoes and his winter coat. So he’s wearing moccasins and a sweater, head …
5:17 PM Just found out that I will be interviewed by Mark Elfstrand tomorrow morning on WMBI, 90.1 FM, at 7:45 CDT.
4:20 PM Nancy Pearcey explains why intelligent design will win.3:56 PM God at work on the other side of the world . . .
Another brother was added to the ranks tonight . . . A guy we’ve met with for two or three times was the only one to come, and we were going to give the bridge the gap speech to everyone to ensure t …
7:12 PM Special thanks to Randy Birkey and the team at Birkey.com for developing the Keep Believing site over the last few months. Since late September my main weblog has been on the Crosswalk website. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to migrate the daily weblog to this website. But it will take a while to make the …
3:45 PM Our final Christmas present arrived today, and it was a happy surprise. Wayne Watkins sent us a big tin of his incomparable, delectable, totally awesome, homemade peanut brittle. I never even liked peanut brittle until Wayne started giving us some of his about ten years ago. Now I’m addicted, but only to Wayne …