One Cross over Barcelona, originally uploaded by papalars. For more than thirty years, I have felt, on and off again, that there was something more to the Christian journey than my current experience was telling me. During my college years in particular, I sometimes became incredibly disillusioned with my ownContinue Reading

Guapo, originally uploaded by papalars. Here is the more to come that I promised about Fabio and the Esparcidos project. The "Esparcidos Project" is an intentional effort by the Covenant in Spain to respond to the huge demographic reality of the Latin American immigrants who are literally flooding into thisContinue Reading

My creation, originally uploaded by papalars. I mentioned I´d tell a story about Fabio. Well, here is a teaser that I will fill in later. Need to hit the hay and get ready for Carol to come home. Maybe do a little more cleaning than Erick and I have grownContinue Reading

Click the photo to get the flickr posting where you can view this picture in a larger size. The Sagrada Familia church is on the horizon in the right third of this pan.   A quickie here. Someone just inquired where I got all these nice photos. Well, a littleContinue Reading

Here is another one of my new friends. His name is Miguel and he is from Argentina. I first met Miguel in October of 2005 when I came to Barcelona for a conference on our focus friends. The topic of that conference was addressing the many aspects of Maghrebi assimilationContinue Reading