Where I live, in the United States, November means “Thanksgiving.” Although, technically, Thanksgiving is a one day public holiday, in typical American style we blow it up and stretch it out to epic proportions. We spend the whole month visiting [...]
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It became the #2 best seller in the nation (second only to the Bible), and turned the tide of white American sentement against slavery. Ten years later—19 months into [...]
As part of our initiative to mobilize prayer, we are adding prayer videos to our resource library. This is our first video, with more to come (we hope). You can pray along with the video, or use it as [...]
My darling husband generally only gets to see me during my least-shining moments. Before he leaves for work, I am tearing apart the kitchen to feed my hungry horde and make lunches to send to school, to the soundtrack of, [...]
It’s easy to get discouraged. I look around at all the brokenness in our country and in the world, and I sometimes think, “How could this ever change? What does it matter if I work, give, pray, volunteer, advocate, vote, [...]
How do we pray for refugees? Of course we can pray for the most apparent needs – food, shelter, security, etc. – but we also need to pray for the deeper things.
Poverty is often caused by societal systems that favor some people over others. And those systems are fed by broken beliefs
Easter is my favorite holiday. I mean, I love Christmas...but to be honest, trying to balance “keeping Christ in Christmas” with all the cultural baggage of the holiday leaves me completely exhausted. But not Easter. Somehow, within the confines of [...]
This blog was originally posted in March 2017. Of all the different issues we could talk about as we focus on women this month, the one that keeps coming to my mind is the way we women think of ourselves [...]
I Timothy 2:1-2 - I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. [...]
