By Vanita Joines Most of these kids were adopted out into homes that then eventually gave them up so there is a lot of hurt and pain. I sat in the car nodding my head and listening intently to the woman explaining where she was taking me. I was traveling with CTI Music Ministries as … Continue reading The Responsibility to Care
By Katherine Spearing During the fall, I worked on a congressional campaign in Alabama. From the beginning, I was cautioned not to go to the north side of the city. It was the low-income, predominately black area of the city. Though I understood that demographically, the black communities had a history of voting a certain … Continue reading The North Side: Looking Beyond Appearance
By Karen Swank “I have no fear of drowning. It’s the breathing that’s taking all this work…” -Jars of Clay, “Work” Yesterday morning, a respected elected official in my town killed himself. This morning, I sobbed myself sick driving to work as I prayed for his family and our community. The sky was gray, … Continue reading Perusings of a Recovering Hope Killer
By Karen Swank You asked me once what I pray for you. I was busy, buried under the mountain that the “to do” list had become, working every minute I was awake and functioning on only a few hours’ sleep most nights, and said I’d tell you more later when I got dug out a … Continue reading What I Pray For You
By Lauren Deville Even though we live in an age of feminism and equality (and I’m no exception: I remember bristling with indignation when boys in college seemed put off by my ambition, instead preferring girls who were more or less paying tuition for their “MRS” degrees), I have to admit that a large piece … Continue reading Book Review: A Beautiful Fall by Chris Coppernoll
By C. Holland As the new year comes upon us, many will be going through the age-old exercise of deciding on resolutions to better ourselves somehow. By now we’ve all heard the traditional stable of references to dieting, education, finances, or banishing bad habits. These will continue to be revisited each year, hopefully with increasing … Continue reading New Year’s Confession: My Addiction to Anxiety
By Joe Gomez One hundred and three years later, Einstein has been proven right. Its taken more than a century, but Einsteins celebrated formula e=mc2 has finally been corroborated, thanks to a heroic computational effort by French, German and Hungarian physicists. A brainpower consortium led by Laurent Lellouch of Frances Centre for Theoretical Physics, using … Continue reading Trusting the Seeds of Ministry
By Vanita Joines “Hold on! Don’t let go.” I craned my neck back at these words and dug my gloved fingers even deeper into the iced snow that was my only contact with the earth. “Ok,” I replied, although I had no other thought than to hold on for dear life. “I can’t believe I’m … Continue reading A Reluctant Rescue
By Sarae Martin After a particularly rough weekend with the kids, I came across this encouraging word from the Lord. Psalm 16:7-11 I will bless the LORD who has counseled me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night. I have set the LORD continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I … Continue reading For the Overwhelmed Parent
By Naomi Silseth The ocean seems a perfect place for thinking. Something about the open endlessness and the never-changing, yet ever-changing waves lulls one into a meditative state of mind. This trip to the beach was no exception. Over the course of the first day, I had thought about a succession of subjects: from the … Continue reading God’s Promises and Messages In the Sand