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Restoring Relationships: 30 Days to Peace

One of the most frequent internet searches is people who want help with relationships. We are all in them and, at times, we will all struggle with a relationship of one kind or another. Whatever the relationship, husband/wife; parent/child; siblings; extended family; friendships; relationships outside the home … there is one set of guidelines that [...] Read More >

Japan: Another disaster

This is becoming much too familiar. As I turned on the news this morning, I gasped. Oh no, not again.  Like most of you I started a familiar dance – inching closer to the screen to see what was going on and mentally cataloging where my friends and family are.  My niece is in Malaysia, [...] Read More >

You Have the Answers

If you’ve ever thought that your neighbors don’t want to hear about God, you’re wrong. Ask.com, a question-based search engine, recently released the top 10 most frequently asked questions.  The list is based on over a billion searches on their site since the year 2000.  I was expecting to see silly questions, or childish riddles, [...] Read More >

Almost Christian

We know that the college years can be a time when young people walk away from their faith, but what about the teen years? A recent survey of teens and faith – the National Study of Youth and Religion – has some results that might surprise you. In a recent article for CNN, Kenda Creasy [...] Read More >

Take a Breather

Ever have a moment when you just need to take a breath? For one JetBlue employee a moment’s distress could end up costing him his job. Steven Slater, an experienced flight attendant was honestly trying to do his job.  A passenger ignored the pilot’s warning to remind seated and stood to retrieve her bag from [...] Read More >

Reconciling Your Sexual Past with your Marriage

What do you do when you have quite the sexual past, but you want to have a pure marriage, with a great sex life? Can you rid yourself of the baggage from everything you’ve already done? Here’s a letter that I received recently: I am single, in my late twenties. In my earlier twenties, I [...] Read More >

Is van der Sloot Innocent?

When you hear the name Joran van der Sloot what’s the first word that pops into your head – innocent or guilty? From a legal standpoint, at least in the US, the rule is “innocent until proven guilty” but that’s only what the law books say.  In the court of public opinion it simply is [...] Read More >

What do You Want for Christmas?

If there’s one question I hear over and over again this time of year it’s this: what do you want for Christmas?  Amid the gift and the wrappings there is something about this time of year that gives us permission to dream, to be extravagant to hope for something more. Christmas is a time for [...] Read More >

Tell Me Your Story

Have you ever wished you had a more exciting testimony? I remember sitting in Sunday School years ago hearing a dramatic story of life and loss and salvation and thinking, “Wow, I don’t have a story like that.  I guess I don’t have a testimony.”  I could not have been more wrong. It can be [...] Read More >

Barrenness Binds Us Together

Barren is a terrible word that scripture often uses to describe women who can’t have children. Images of a desert wasteland emerge. I wonder if Hannah, Rachel, Sarah and the other barren women of scripture found it as offensive as I do. My husband and I gave our infertility a more fitting nickname. We called [...] Read More >

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