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, [...]
As a mother, one of the most difficult issues for me to delve into is child abuse. I shy away from reading news or books about it. And, to tell you the truth, when I was assigned this blog topic, [...]
If you are like me, you are excited to welcome the New Year, to put last year to rest and start fresh. It is no understatement that 2017 was a very difficult year, especially in terms of natural disasters—wildfires in [...]
But the truth is that genocide by no means happens suddenly. It is rather like a slow-growing cancer. We often don’t recognize the early symptoms, and sometimes we just don’t want to. Like cancer, genocide grows in stages. It begins simply with the way we start to classify ourselves in contrast to other groups, and then discriminate, persecute, and eventually try to eliminate them.
The first time I watched the movie Lion, I was sitting on a plane between my two kids, on our way from India to the U.S. I was utterly drawn in, recognizing in so many scenes the world I was just [...]
My earliest memory of being aware of refugees even existing simply involves sitting in a living room with a family I couldn’t talk to (because we didn’t speak the same language), and being served my first cup of Turkish coffee [...]
As I am sitting in a cab on my way home from a meeting with Rahham’s director and his family, fresh information and vibrant images swirl around in my head. Did you know that HIV-infected people need up to 30 [...]
Christmas is approaching. It’s a season when Christians all over the world love to share about their faith. Unfortunately, that also means that it’s a time when persecution increases. I live in what is labelled a ‘closed’ or ‘creative access’ [...]
It’s #GivingTuesday, the day when we all plead with you to send us any spare pennies that remain after the joys of Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. We’re changing it up a bit this year, though. We aren’t asking [...]
This article was originally posted in October 2016. We are happy to report that, in January 2019, Congo had its first ever peaceful change of leadership. Since then, President Félix Tshisekedi has twice called the church leaders to join him [...]
