We walk about 12 minutes to get to church. It’s a few blocks up, and a few blocks over and on the walk, the first few blocks, we’re still in a nice-looking neighborhood with low crime. But it soon changes and for the last few blocks we’re in a rougher Read more…
Over at SheLoves Magazine today sharing about why I needed a break from church to let some my wounds start to heal, and why I need to be back in church to be fully well. ♦ For the first time in both of our lives we gave ourselves permission to Read more…
According to Jesus in the Parable of the Workers, the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who goes out early in the morning to hire day laborers for his vineyard. He goes out, hires some guys, and agrees to pay them each a denarius–the standard daily wage at the Read more…
I wrote this a few weeks ago, about 2 weeks before my husband got a job and we moved to Baltimore, MD. But over a year ago, as we waited for that green card in Cairo, for some reason we had a hunch this was the city for us. And Read more…
Very grateful to be sharing over at Faithfully Magazine about why we can’t support both missions and a Muslim ban. * A group of friends—a married couple, their newborn and their two young, single friends—get three-month visas to visit the United States. They are Muslim missionaries, passionate about America and Read more…
The very second post on my blog, almost 7 years ago to the day, two blog addresses ago, and just a 2 months before I moved overseas, was about kidney donation – specifically, mine. (You can read about it here – so long as you bear in mind it was written Read more…
For the first time in a long time I’m putting my hand to poetry, and sharing it over at SheLoves Magazine today. ♦ When that fire burns, I forget that this light of mine – it is small; A flickering, dying light, kept alight by sure, surrounding hands, But small nonetheless; I Read more…
These days I’m wrestling with big theological doozies about American affluence, my refugee friends, what God’s blessing actually means, suffering, and supposed easy answers to a faith that has undone me. I have this tapestry of my faith and my faith journey, and a lifetime of believing in God and Read more…
Grateful to be sharing Salvation in the Grieving over at SheLoves Magazine, in possibly one of my most favorite pieces I’ve ever written. ♦ Whenever I share about my life overseas, people comment that I chose a hard path. Perhaps I didn’t choose an easy road, but it was a great Read more…
Last month, a number of people I know were sharing a link to an article written by a member of President Trump’s Evangelical advisory council, about why the author was not resigning from the committee. Like many others, I clicked the link – not only because I wanted to read what Read more…