Good news for 2019, dear reader: God loves you. If you’re like me (maybe a little jaded), this statement probably feels like Sunday school 101. But for the world’s most vulnerable people, understanding that God is love, and that God [...]
Christmas is upon us. My festive and overachieving husband has put 11,040 twinkle lights on our house. My children are practicing carols on the piano. The oranges on our tree are changing color (it may be snowing where you live, [...]
I had the opportunity to visit India a few months ago. While I was there, I met and talked with a widow named Nagamani. She was young—I’m guessing under thirty. Yet when she lost her husband, she felt her life [...]
I grew up in a missions-minded church where we talked about “unreached people groups” about as often as we recited John 3:16. So, you know, A LOT. Just in case this doesn’t come up much in your church, dear Reader, [...]
I married a PK. That’s right, “pastor’s kids” get their own abbreviation, which they wear like a medal of honor for trials endured. Growing up, PKs know that if they mess up, get in trouble, or even have a heartfelt [...]
If you’re anything like me, it’s super easy to get caught up in all of the injustice, heartbreak, and scary things in our world. We can start to live our lives in anger, fear, or self-protection. My friend called me [...]
I recently read a news article that said Americans, on average, die with $12,875 dollars of non-mortgage debt.1 And it didn’t even really shock me. I live in America, so I know this reality first hand. We’re the richest country [...]
Ask just about any parent anywhere in the world and they’ll tell you: the teen years are tough. There is something uniquely challenging about helping a person transition from childhood to adulthood. I’m not quite there yet as a parent, [...]
Confession time: I am a bleeding heart. As hard as I have worked my entire adult life to understand the root causes of poverty and the best, most biblical ways to relate with vulnerable people, I still want to empty [...]
A friend from Asia recently told me that, in his country, it’s typical for only about 30 percent of the money for a public works project to actually be used for the project. The other 70 percent simply disappears—presumably into [...]
