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They say you can't be a hero until you've climbed the Great Wall. There's a very good reason: It's quite steep.

This was the emperor responsible for moving the capital to Beijing and starting the Ming Tombs (where we are right now) and the Great Wall.

The money is thrown at his feet for good luck: A practice undoubtedly rooted in ancestor worship.

We dropped by a silk factory and learned that silk worms grow to full size in about 60 days: That's five silk worm years. Then they spin a cacoon of silk. Five percent of them pair together to make a cacoon of two threads that surrounds both of them. Each thread is about a mile long: Quite productiv...

Friends,
It was great to meet you on the Great Wall. Thank you so much for the oranges, the apple and the kiwi juice. All the best with your studies in Beijing.

I went to a jade factory in Hong Kong in '86. The way I remember they ran their machines with a foot pump.

In the foreground: the aquatic center. Behind that is the Bird's Nest stadium, which will be used for track and field and the opening ceremonies.

...for cycle racing.

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Now we're standing on Chinese tile.

Now the sun's coming up over Russia. Besides the lack of technology, this missing shortcut is why I couldn't fly straight to China on my last visit in 1986. I ran a cross-country race in Guangzhou, China. To get there we flew south from Medford, OR, to L.A. to Anchorage to Seoul to Hong Kong. From t...

In my play A Clear Leading I tell the story of Quaker abolitionist John Woolman. When I performed the play at Pocklington School, just outside York, England, instructors there told me that William Wilberforce wrote his first anti-slavery essay the year that Woolman visited York.

Wilberforce went...

"Barbaric Faith is too give your heart to the One who can make you fully alive...to go where He sends you, no matter the cost." --Irwin McManus

We landed in plenty of time for our connection. Thanks for your prayers!

Thanks to all of you who have been praying for our travels. The storms cleared out, and we're off on time. All looks good for making our flight to Asia tomorrow.

This morning Matt's digging deeper into appologetics.

He pointed out that those who don't believe in the Lord have exchanged the truth of God for a lie. Their world view is not based on Truth, so there are many contradictions to what they believe. They reject scripture but accept scientific studies ...

Frank Penna, who ran the prayer labyrinth, recognized me from Roger Nelson's newsletter in which he wrote obout our Off-Broadway run last April. He's been a Roger Nelson fan since he saw him in 1978. He was thrilled to see him again in 2001.