So my answer to the frequently ask question of what do I do over here is fairly simple: I serve where needed on a daily basis.

Being a successful animist requires learning to stay alive in a hostile world of spiritual chaos. Nothing is predictable. Enemies can summon demons to destroy you by using the proper incantations.

I said, “If I had come before you had become Christians, what would you have done to me?” In unison a large group of people said, “We would have eaten you!”

It’s hard to imagine how we ever got along without computers. When Eunice and I first came to Madang in 1981, our office equipment consisted of a rusty manual typewriter and a fairly accurate mechanical adding machine.