Country roads, take me home, to the place where I belong…John Denver was singing about the mountains of West Virginia but his song resonated with me as I read about prominent Mumbaiites like Suketu Mehta urging the world to run to Mumbai – not away from it in response to the recent terrorist attacks. I agree with Suketu's message and am trying to not give in to fear, to not feed into the goals of such heinous acts. So, inspired by another of Suketu's writings, I wanted to share one of Mumbai's most celebrated street foods, Vada Pav.
The stacks of pav have been sprinkled with chutney – the top half of the inside of the bun is bathed in green chutney, the bottom with red garlic chutney…I walk away from the stall and crush the vada by pressing down on it with the pav, little cracks appear in the crispy surface, and the vada oozes out its potato and pea mixture. I eat. The crispy batter, the mouthful of sweet-soft pav tempering the heat of the chutney, the spices of the vada mixture – dark with garam masala and studded with whole cloves of garlic that look like cashews – get masticated into a good mouthful, a good mouth-feel. My stomach is getting filled, and I feel like I am eating something nourishing a long spell of sobbing.
This description has stuck with me ever since I read Maximum City months ago. It took about an hour for me, my brother, his wife, H, and R to make the vada pav (pronounced vuh-duh pow) but it was a lot of fun – from the rolling to the frying to the smearing the chutneys and then chowing down. Photos courtesy of my brother – deep frying and simultaneous picture taking not recommended.
1. Vadas: Boil ~8 potatoes and 1 cup of frozen peas. Peel the potatoes andmash with the peas in a mixing bowl using a potato masher or a big spoon.
2.In a food processor, chop the garlic, green chilis, cashews and coriander and then mix into the potato-pea mixture. Mix in the garam masala, coriander powder and 2 tspn. salt. Break off portions of the mixture and roll in your palms into round balls.
3. Batter: Make the batter by mixing the besan slowly with ~1 cup water in a mixing bowl. The batter shouldn't be watery or too thick. Mix in the turmeric, lal mirch and 1 tspn salt.
4. Heat enough oil for deep frying the vadas. Dip each vada into the batter and then gently roll into the oil for deep frying.
5. Pav: Spread Olivio on the insides of both halves of the buns. Pan fry each half until the insides are golden.
6. Vada + Pav: Smear mint, tamarind and chili garlic chutney on one side of the pav. Place the vada on top, then the other side of the pav and gently smush. Then, open your mouth wide and enjoy the "mouthful" – the "mouth-feel." We put the chutneys out and then each assembled our own vada pavs – it's more fun that way and let's you choose how much chutney (i.e. heat) you can handle.
This vada pav recipe was given to us by H's mom with a little improvising on our part…like so many desi recipes passed down from parents, it was a list of ingredients without any measurements (b/c apparently parents don't measure!). I wrote down the amounts we used as went along so here's to another desi recipe being demystified.
Also, here's a post from Holy Cow, a vegan cooking blog, also about celebrating Mumbai and it's beauties through it's street food that I really liked.
That looks absolutely fantastic! I really need to get over my whole "frying food scares me" issue.
Erin, thanks! They live up to Suketu's description so definitely a good reason for overcoming frying fears. I think the key is to keep the oil from getting hot and of course, being really really careful!
Alisa, thanks for your compliments. That song has been stuck in my head ever since the weekend too! Looking forward to checking out your site.
thank you, that's an amazing picture, looks exactly like the vadapav at borkar's that i ate.
great site. i'm a hungry desi too.
suketu, thanks for the compliments. i hope to one day make it to borkars…next up, maybe i'll do masala cokes!
Found you a Mike's. Those vada pavs look WOW!! Good job done…they look really pro!!
Thanks Deba! Happy to have found you and the Daily TIffin too. Let me know if you try the vada pav.
Hi, I tried your vada pav recipe and i have to say, it was the same taste i had in Pune. It was amazing. We rae in Singapore and we were really craving for vada pav. Thanks a lot. It was too good. Could you also please post the recipe of the chilli garlic chutney which goes along with it.
by ant chance do u have the recipe of Pav.
Haag, sorry I bought my pav from the store 🙁 If you can't find pav, you could try american hamburger buns (but they won't have the mild sweetness that pav has.
So jealous. I was thinking the other day that it's about time to have these again.
Thanks for the recipe. I was delighted to see the passage from Suketu Mehta's book–I love the description of the vadapav in it, and I too, haven't been able to stop thinking about it since! I'm definitely going to try this recipe soon.


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Continuing his long-standing personal commitment to supporting peace in Sudan and ending the genocide in Darfur, President Obama attends a meeting of heads of state and Sudanese leaders to address the urgent situation in Sudan.
Remarks by the President in a Ministerial Meeting on Sudan
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Mr. Secretary General, on behalf of us all, thank you for convening this meeting to address the urgent situation in Sudan that demands the attention of the world.
At this moment, the fate of millions of people hangs in the balance. What happens in Sudan in the days ahead may decide whether a people who have endured too much war move forward towards peace or slip backwards into bloodshed. And what happens in Sudan matters to all of sub-Saharan Africa, and it matters to the world.
I want to thank Vice President Taha and First Vice President Kiir for being here.
To my fellow leaders from Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Asia -- your presence sends an unmistakable message to the Sudanese people and to their leaders that we stand united. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the civil war must be fully implemented. The referenda on self-determination scheduled for January 9th must take place -- peacefully and on time, the will of the people of South Sudan and the region of Abyei must be respected, regardless of the outcome.
We are here because the leaders of Sudan face a choice. It's not the choice of how to move forward to give the people of Sudan the peace they deserve. We already know what needs to be done. The choice is for Sudanese leaders -- whether they will have the courage to walk the path. And the decision cannot be delayed any longer.
Despite some recent progress, preparations for the referenda are still behind schedule. Now, the vote is only a little more than a hundred days away. And tragically, as has already been referred to, a recent spike in violence in Darfur has cost the lives of hundreds of more people.
So the stakes are enormous. We all know the terrible price paid by the Sudanese people the last time north and south were engulfed in war: some two million people killed. Two million people. Millions more left homeless; millions displaced to refugee camps, threatening to destabilize the entire region. Separately, in Darfur, the deaths of hundreds of thousands shocked the conscience of the world. This is the awful legacy of conflict in Sudan -- the past that must not become Sudan's future.
That is why, since I took office, my administration has worked for peace in Sudan. In my meetings with world leaders, I've urged my counterparts to fully support and contribute to the international effort that is required. Ambassador Susan Rice has worked tirelessly to build a strong and active coalition committed to moving forward. My special envoy, General Gration, has worked directly with the parties in his 20 visits to the region.
We've seen some progress. With our partners, we've helped to bring an end to the conflict between Sudan and Chad. We've worked urgently to improve humanitarian conditions on the ground. And we're leading the effort to transform the Sudan People's Liberation Army into a professional security force, including putting an end to the use of children as soldiers.
Recognizing that southern Sudan must continue to develop and improve the lives of its people -- regardless of the referendum's outcome -- we and the U.N. mission are helping the government of southern Sudan improve the delivery of food and water and health care and strengthen agriculture.
And most recently, we've redoubled our efforts to ensure that the referenda takes place as planned. Vice President Biden recently visited the region to underscore that the results of the referenda must be respected. Secretary Clinton has engaged repeatedly with Sudanese leaders to convey our clear expectations. We've increased our diplomatic presence in southern Sudan -- and mobilized others to do the same -- to prepare for the January 9th vote and for what comes after.
But no one can impose progress and peace on another nation. Ultimately, only Sudanese leaders can ensure that the referenda go forward and that Sudan finds peace. There's a great deal of work that must be done, and it must be done quickly.
So two paths lay ahead: one path taken by those who flout their responsibilities and for whom there must be consequences
-- more pressure and deeper isolation.
The other path is taken by leaders who fulfill their obligations, and which would lead to improved relations between the United States and Sudan, including supporting agricultural development for all Sudanese, expanding trade and investment, and exchanging ambassadors, and eventually, working to lift sanctions -- if Sudanese leaders fulfill their obligations.
Now is the time for the international community to support Sudanese leaders who make the right choice. Just as the African nations of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development rose to the challenge and helped the parties find a path to peace in 2005, all of us can do our part to ensure that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement is fully implemented.
We must promote dignity and human rights throughout all of Sudan, and this includes extending the mandate of the U.N. independent expert of Sudan -- because we cannot turn a blind eye to the violation of basic human rights. And as I said, regardless of the outcome of the referenda, we must support development in southern Sudan, because people there deserve the same dignity and opportunities as anyone else.
And even as we focus on advancing peace between north and south, we will not abandon the people of Darfur. The government of Sudan has recently pledged to improve security and living conditions in Darfur -- and it must do so. It need not wait for a final peace agreement. It must act now to halt the violence and create the conditions -- access and security -- so aid workers and peacekeepers can reach those in need and so development can proceed. Infrastructure and public services need to be improved. And those who target the innocent -- be they civilians, aid workers or peacekeepers -- must be held accountable.
Progress toward a negotiated and definitive end to the conflict is possible. And now is the moment for all nations to send a strong signal that there will be no time and no tolerance for spoilers who refuse to engage in peace talks.
Indeed, there can be no lasting peace in Darfur -- and no normalization of relations between Sudan and the United States -- without accountability for crimes that have been committed. Accountability is essential not only for Sudan's future, it also sends a powerful message about the responsibilities of all nations that certain behavior is simply not acceptable in this world; that genocide is not acceptable. In the 21st century, rules and universal values must be upheld.
I saw the imperative of justice when I visited one of the camps in Chad several years ago. It was crowded with more than 15,000 people, most of them children. What I saw in that camp was heartbreaking -- families who had lost everything, surviving on aid. I'll never forget the man who came up to me -- a former teacher who was raising his family of nine in that camp. He looked at me and he said very simply, "We need peace." We need peace.
Your Excellencies -- Vice President Taha, First Vice President Kiir -- the Sudanese people need peace. And all of us have come together today because the world needs a just and lasting peace in Sudan.
Here, even as we confront the challenges before us, we can look beyond the horizon to the different future that peace makes possible. And I want to speak directly to the people of Sudan, north and south. In your lives you have faced extraordinary hardship. But now there's the chance to reap the rewards of peace. And we know what that future looks like. It's a future where children, instead of spending the day fetching water, can go to school -- and come home safe. It's a future where families, back in their homes, can once again farm the soil of their ancestors.
It's a future where, because their country has been welcomed back into the community of nations, more Sudanese have the opportunity to travel, more opportunity to provide education, more opportunities for trade. It's a future where, because their economy is tied to the global economy, a woman can start a small business, a manufacturer can export his goods, a growing economy raises living standards, from large cities to the most remote village.
This is not wide-eyed imagination. This is the lesson of history -- from Northern Ireland to the Balkans, from Camp David to Aceh -- that with leaders of courage and vision, compromise is possible, and conflicts can be ended. And it is the example of Africans -- from Liberia to Mozambique to Sierra Leone -- that after the darkness of war, there can be a new day of peace and progress.
So that is the future that beckons the Sudanese people -- north and south, east and west. That is the path that is open to you today. And for those willing to take that step, to make that walk, know that you will have a steady partner in the United States of America.
Thank you very much. (Applause.)
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Building World no. 76, 27 March 1897
The single issue of the Building World we have on this site comes from the second periodical of this name. The original had finished in 1892, having started as Reynolds's Building Trades Circular in 1876, and changing name the following year to the Building World. To avoid confusion it is as well to state that this Reynolds was not the popular author and editor G.W.M. Reynolds but a builder who started the journal to promote his own work.
The second Builder's World by contrast was not indigenous to the building trade at all. Rather it was just one of the wide-ranging portfolio of the large company Cassell & Co. which had been originally founded in 1848. It is clear from the sheer number of advertisements here that, in common with many of its ilk, the Building World sustained itself through advertising income rather than cover price. Cassell probably started it for its potential as a money-spinner through advertising.
While we can easily see that the last five pages comprise adverts typical of the florid style of the 1880s and 90s, advertising seems to determine almost every aspect of the magazine so the world it builds is rigorously coherent, cohesive, and exclusive of other possible ways of being.
This strenuous cohesion is evident in how readers are not treated as "other" to the magazine. They do not oppose or criticise its basis, but are incorporated into it, and indeed, into producing it.
The magazine's dependence on readers' interactions (or at least the appearance of readers' interactions) is clear on even a cursory glance. Almost the entirety of the 5th page of the issue here (p. 397 in the volume number as a whole) comprises a series of letters from readers about practical problems they faced from how to paint a rusty drinking water tank to how to apply "polishes, varnishes, and stains." As always in "Letters to the Editor", it is difficult to work out which letters are genuine and which are made up by the editorial team.
For example, while the letter headlined "'Building World' calculated to raise the standard of efficiency in workmen" may or may not be genuine, it certainly does serve as an self-advertisement for the "most excellent trade paper" which "in these competitive days supplies a long-felt want… a great boon to all who study its interesting pages." It's clear that the criterion of efficiency is being prioritised here as the factor that will sell the most copies (efficiency in workers as opposed to, say, their happiness or their creation of beautiful things). The letter makes a revealing suggestion when the writer (certainly the voice belong to a man) says he's willing to distribute the journal amongst "country mechanics". That implies that workers in towns will have no problem accessing the journal, while even as late as 1897, the standard commercial distribution networks for print (through newsagents) may not reach into smaller towns and villages. Presumably the idea was that once the "country mechanics" had read a free copy of the Building World, they would happily subscribe and get the paper delivered to them through the post. A very efficient and rational method of planting ideas in readers' minds, which does, nonetheless rely on the free gift of the writer's labour to distribute the paper. Efficiency – and profit – it seems, requires sacrifices, in this case willing sacrifice of time.
We see advertising again when a Joiner writes in on the same page: the Editor (at the bottom of the right-hand column) responds by pointing to a handbook recently published called Work which readers are told is advertised "on page 11 of supplement" (of which, alas, we could not find a copy to digitise).
The following page (page 6 of the issue) runs "Questions and Answers." This time the questions are contributed by readers – readers determine the content in a consumer-led model of what a periodical should be. The same, in a much more telegraphic form, is continued on the next page by "Answers to Correspondents" – a kind of interaction that popular fiction periodicals had been engaged in since at least the 1840s, if not earlier. The difference between "Questions and Answers" and "Answers to Correspondents" is length and detail of reply. As we might expect, advertising in the guise of information is common: L.J.R. (Dover) is told in "Answers to Correspondents" to read issue no 387, p. 83, of Work (another Cassell publication) ; W.J.D. (Wigan) is referred to an article (in the Building World) in issue 68, while "Improver (Bayswater)" is sent to issue 75. There are many other such.
Efficiency of the advertising relies on iteration and the cohesive cross-referral practices of such magazines. Such tiny seeming unimportant gestures create a self-referring, self-confirming world where certain practices and values are considered the only valid ones at the expense of others.
Emphasis on the value of efficiency in a "competitive world" inevitably relies on its opposite – failure – and failure is a constant worry, though usually corralled and contained into separate sections, as if it might infect the rest. The Law Cases (pp. 7-8) and, above all, the list of bankruptcies (p. 10) are where these anxieties surface most spectacularly (see the short story about looming bankruptcy inspired by the Building World for the resonance of these worries today). Of course, one can argue that readers rationally need to know who is a reliable supplier or firm and who is not: they need to protects their assets and profits and not waste them on bankrupts. But that "rational" reason is built on emotion – the fear of failure.
Trade magazines have traditionally not dealt only in failure of course: they usually give positive as well as a negative reasons to buy. In fact we see a mixture of hope and anxiety built into the industry the Building World is part of in the several columns on pp. 9-10 devoted to competitive bids for contracts and the competition results ("Contracts Open" and "Contracts Closed").
It is as if the whole magazine were structured around the well-known two-stage advertising narrative of "state the problem; the product gives the answer." The Building World engenders the fear of failure and at the same time offers a comforting solution to this – ways of acting ever more "efficiently."
In the moving-image ads we are familiar with today, this fear-rescue narrative is presented linearly over time; in print, that temporal sequence does not need to be followed, especially if the print text reiterates the same fear-rescue week after week, month after month.
It looks as though the Building World was less concerned with the abstract and modernising aim of setting the standards of disciplinary or professional excellence (as professional magazines have been presented) than with what students of fantasy literature call world building – a sense of place which is convincing and immersive, and in which the hero or heroine can prove their ability to act independently. The Building World constructs a realist, consistent, self-confirming world for its readers, a world that feeds and contains the dragon of failure and the crown of success. It would never claim that its world was a fantasy, but the thinking is uncannily similar.
There is a lot more to be said about this world-building function of a trade journal. For now, it's enough to conclude that Cassell & Co. knew very well what they were doing.
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7 Great Movies from Hamburg
Absolute Giganten (1999)
The debut film of director Sebastian Schipper depicts three lads from Hamburg who spend their last night together before one of them takes up a post on an ocean liner. The film has been honoured e.g. with the German Film Award in silver.
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A most wanted Man (2014)
Directed by Anton Corbijn, this international spy thriller is based on the bestselling novel by John Le Carré. The film co-stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Robyn Wright and Willem Dafoe alongside German big names such as Nina Hoss and Daniel Brühl. Film locations included e.g. the Alster Lake, the port of Hamburg, the St Pauli pub "Silbersack" and the historic Brahms-Kontor building.
Fraktus (2012)
A truly hilarious mockumentary on the German techno band of the same name. Directed by Lars Jessen, the film features Heinz Strunk, Rocko Schamoni and Jacques Palminger, all local heroes from Hamburg's cultural scene. "Fraktus" quickly became a box office success in Germany.
Soulkitchen (2009)
Directed by Fatih Akin and set in the district of Wilhelmsburg, the comedy "Soul Kitchen" is widely considered to be THE Hamburg film. The "Soul Kitchen Hall", an old factory building that provided the setting for large parts of the film, subsequently served as a location for various events and exhibitions. Due to structural deficiencies, the location was closed down in 2013, and the Soul Kitchen series of events has since been relocated to other venues.
Nordsee ist Mordsee (1976)
Young Uwe and his gang spend their time cracking slot machines and beating up foreigners. When the gang wreck the boat of young Dschingis, the boy puts up a fight and defends himself. The initial rivalry between Uwe and Dschingis turns into a friendship, and the two boys rebuild the boat and set off to the North Sea. This 1976 classic film by director Hark Bohm was largely shot around the area of the Wilhelmsburg train station and the Veringkanal.
Große Freiheit No. 7 (1944)
This 1944 musical drama features Hans Albers as the former sailor Hannes, who is asked by his brother to look after his ex-girlfriend Gisela. In Hamburg Hannes discovers that he has feelings for Gisela. A boat trip by Gisela and Hannes, as well as several scenes on the St Pauli Landungsbrücken, at the Blohm + Voss shipyard and the Sagebiel Fährhaus were filmed in Hamburg.
Große Freiheit Nr. 7 - watch Medley on Youtube
Tore tanzt (2013)
The debut film of Hamburg-based director Katrin Gebbe and producer Verena Graefe-Höft has been described by various media as "contemporary, radical cinema from Germany". This psychodrama was entirely produced in Hamburg and was the only German contribution to be represented at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.


Join the Charlotte Film Society in their Back Alley Film Series as they screen Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made on Saturday, July 23rd from 7pm to 11:45pm at C3Lab.
After Steven Spielberg's classic Raiders of the Lost Ark was released 35 years ago, three 11-year-old boys from Mississippi set out on what would become a 7-year-long labor of love and tribute to their favorite film: a faithful, shot-for-shot adaptation of the action adventure film. They finished every scene...except one; the film's explosive airplane set piece.
Eric Zala, subject of the film and Director of the remake fan film, will be in attendance for a Q&A after the film as a special bonus. After the documentary, please join us for a very special screening of the cult fan film made by Eric and his friends in the mid 80's!


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My phone beeped, indicating an incoming text. My daughter wanted my grandmother's recipe for Peppermint Ice Cream Pie. As I thumbed through the yellowed cards in my aged recipe box, my eyes spotted the unique handwriting of my grandmother—and several jotted notes in the small cursive of my mother. It occurred to me that with my daughter's request, Peppermint Ice Cream Pie would make its entrance into a fourth generation within my family.
I wondered, what other family heirlooms might be handed down generation to generation? What about choices regarding faith? Besides the pie, would the faith of my grandmother—and my own—play out in the lives of my daughter and her offspring?
In Psalm 79, the psalmist bemoans a wayward Israel, which has lost its faith moorings. He begs God to rescue His people from the ungodly and to restore Jerusalem to safety. This done, he promises a restored—and ongoing—commitment to God's ways. "Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation, we will proclaim your praise" (v. 13).
I eagerly shared the recipe, knowing my grandmother's dessert legacy would enjoy a new layer in our family. And I prayed sincerely for the most lasting hand-me-down of all: the influence of our family's faith on one generation to the next.
"Do you want to see what's inside?" my friend asked. I had just complimented her on the old-fashioned rag doll her daughter held in her small arms. Instantly curious, I replied that yes, I very much wanted to see what lay inside. She turned the doll face down and pulled open a discreet zipper sewn into its back. From within the cloth body, Emily gently removed a treasure: the rag doll she'd held and loved throughout the years of her own childhood more than two decades prior. The "outer" doll was merely a shell without this inner core to give it strength and form.
Paul describes the truth of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection as a treasure, carried about in the frail humanity of God's people. That treasure enables those who trust in Him to bear up under unthinkable adversity and continue in their service. When they do, His light—His life—shines brightly through the "cracks" of their humanness. Paul encourages us all to not "lose heart" (2 Corinthians 4:16) because God strengthens us to do His work.
Like the "inner" doll, the gospel-treasure within us lends both purpose and fortitude to our lives. When God's strength shines through us, it invites others to ask, "What's inside?" We can then unzip our hearts and reveal the life-giving promise of salvation in Christ.
My mother and her sisters engage in what is increasingly becoming a lost art form—writing letters. Each week they pen personal words to each other with such consistency that one of their mail-carriers worries when he doesn't have something to deliver! Their letters brim with the stuff of life, the joys and heartaches along with the daily happenings of friends and family.
I love to reflect on this weekly exercise of the women in my family. It helps me appreciate even more the apostle Paul's words that those who follow Jesus are "a letter from Christ," who were "written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God" (2 Cor. 3:3). In response to false teachers who wanted to discredit his message (see 2 Cor. 11), Paul encouraged the church in Corinth to keep on following the true and living God as he had previously taught. In doing so, he memorably described the believers as Christ's letter, with their transformed lives a more powerful witness to the Spirit working through Paul's ministry than any written letter could be.
How wonderful that God's Spirit in us writes a story of grace and redemption! For as meaningful as written words can be, it is our lives that are the best witness to the truth of the gospel, for they speak volumes through our compassion, service, gratitude, and joy. Through our words and actions, the Lord spreads His life-giving love. What message might you send today?
Jesus told a large crowd a parable about the farmer who sowed his seed that fell on different types of ground—a hard path, rocky ground, clumps of thorns, and good soil (Matt. 13:1–9). While some seeds never grew, "the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it" and "produces a crop yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown" (v. 23).
During the twenty years my mother taught first grade in public schools, along with reading, writing, and arithmetic she scattered seeds of kindness and the message of God's love.
A seed of God's love sown today may produce a remarkable harvest.
During court proceedings, witnesses are more than onlookers or spectators. They are active participants who help determine the outcome of a case. The same should be true of the witnesses the Bible says we are to be. We are active participants in a matter of absolute importance—the truth of Jesus' death and resurrection.
When John the Baptist came to tell people about Jesus, the light of the world, he did so by declaring his knowledge of Jesus. And John the disciple, who recorded the events, testified of his experience with Jesus: "We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:14). The apostle Paul would elaborate on this idea as he told young Timothy, "The things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others" (2 Tim. 2:2).
All Christians have been summoned before the courtroom of the world. The Bible says we are not mere spectators but active participants. We testify to the truth about Jesus' death and resurrection. John the Baptist was the voice of one calling in the desert. Our voices can be heard in our workplace, neighborhood, church, and among our family and friends. We can be active witnesses, telling them about the reality of Jesus in our lives.
I stood before the gathering at a small Jamaican church and said in my best local dialect, "Wah Gwan, Jamaica?" The reaction was better than I expected, as smiles and applause greeted me.
In reality, all I had said was the standard greeting, "What's going on?" in Patois [pa-twa], but to their ears I was saying, "I care enough to speak your language." Of course I did not yet know enough Patois to continue, but a door had been opened.
When the apostle Paul stood before the people of Athens, he let them know that he knew their culture. He told them that he had noticed their altar to "an unknown god," and he quoted one of their poets. Of course, not everyone believed Paul's message about Jesus's resurrection, but some said, "We want to hear you again on this subject" (Acts 17:32).
As we interact with others about Jesus and the salvation He offers, the lessons of Scripture (see also 1 Cor. 9:20–23) show us to invest ourselves in others—to learn their language, as it were—as a way to open the door to telling them the Good News.
As we find out "Wah Gwan?" in others' lives, it will be easier to share what God has done in ours.
The Viral Texts project at Northeastern University in Boston is studying how printed content in the 1800s spread through newspapers—the social media network of that day. If an article was reprinted 50 times or more, they considered that "viral" for the industrial age. Writing in Smithsonian Magazine, Britt Peterson noted that a nineteenth-century news article describing which followers of Jesus were executed for their faith appeared in at least 110 different publications.
When the apostle Paul wrote to the Christians in Thessalonica, he commended them for their bold and joyful witness to Jesus. "The Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere" (1 Thess. 1:8). The message of the gospel went viral through these people whose lives had been transformed by Jesus Christ. In spite of difficulties and persecution, they could not remain silent.
We convey the story of forgiveness and eternal life in Christ through kind hearts, helping hands, and honest words from all of us who know the Lord. The gospel transforms us and the lives of those we meet.
May the message ring out from us for all to hear today!
The much-prayed-for film night at the church youth club had finally arrived. Posters had been displayed all around the village and pizzas were warming in the oven. Steve, the youth pastor, hoped that the film—about gang members in New York who were brought face-to-face with the claims of Jesus by a young pastor—would bring new recruits to the club.
But he hadn't realized that a key football match was being shown on television that evening, so attendance was much smaller than he had hoped for. Sighing inwardly, he was about to dim the lights and begin the film when five leather-clad members of the local motorbike club came in. Steve went pale. The leader of the group, who was known as TDog, nodded in Steve's direction. "It's free and for everyone, right?" he said. Steve opened his mouth to say, "Youth club members only" when TDog bent down and picked up a bracelet with the letters WWJD (What Would Jesus Do) stamped on it. "This yours, mate?" he asked. Steve nodded, hot with embarrassment, and waited while the new guests found a seat.
Have you ever been in Steve's situation? You long to share the good news about Jesus, but you have a mental list of the "right" people who would be acceptable? Jesus was often criticized by the religious authorities for the company He kept. But He welcomed those everyone else avoided, because He knew they needed Him most (Luke 5:31–32).
Charlie Sifford is an important name in American sports. He became the first African-American playing member of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) Tour, joining a sport that, until 1961, had a "whites only" clause in its by-laws. Enduring racial injustice and harassment, Sifford earned his place at the game's highest level, won two tournaments, and in 2004 was the first African-American inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Charlie Sifford opened the doors of professional golf for players of all ethnicities.
Opening doors is also a theme at the heart of the gospel mission. Jesus said, "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age" (Matt. 28:19-20).
The word nations (v. 19) is from the Greek word ethnos, which is also the source of the word ethnic. In other words, "Go and make disciples of all ethnicities." Jesus' work on the cross opened the way to the Father for everyone.
Now we have the privilege of caring for others as God has cared for us. We can open the door for someone who never dreamed they'd be welcomed personally into the house and family of God.