The Intersection of Faith and Culture
The Love and Respect Now author and blogger talks about her newest venture, The Illumination Project, a small group study series based on relationships You will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love. (Jim Carrey) Regardless of your religious or philosophical leanings, as human beings we have […]
(And I don’t mean missions trips.) I grew up in a Christian subculture where leaving the church bubble was seen as dangerous: it opened you up to the risk of temptation from the outside world. Want to travel alone or go with friends? Unless it’s a missions trip, forget about it. […]
When I was 20 I was inadvertently starving myself. I had recently developed an intolerance to dairy, and in response to the constant feeling of sickness and bloating, I cut out dairy entirely — and anything that might contain even a smidgen of it. Baked goods with butter, anything that […]
My husband and I had been married just a short time before buying a plane ticket to Europe. Here are some things I wish we would have known before getting on the airplane. 1. Pack less than you think you need My husband Jacob and I spent weeks agonizing over what […]
For most of us millennials, the North American Dream, the promise of prosperity and success to anyone willing to work hard enough, is long dead. It died before we were old enough to care. (Although we suddenly started caring when we graduated college, as we found ourselves employed in coffee […]
Bleary eyed, Jacob and I dragged our luggage onto the platform and thought for the first of many times, “Is this a mistake?” For two hours we had watched endless flat vistas of trees and lakes go by. Our transit line had ended in the middle of nowhere, at a […]