It takes time to build a new community of friends and right now, I'm tired, my heart is burdened and I’m a little sad. I don't want to wait to meet new people. There are things I want to share right now, thoughts I’d like to bounce around. I feel like I don't know who I can turn to just to "be" with me. I wanted to eat lunch with a friend...

A recent Religion News Service headline reports, “Single Adults Want Ministry, Not Sympathy”. According to RNS, singles are “part of a demographic -- men and women of childbearing age without children -- that nearly doubled in 24 years, from 10 percent of the population in 1976 to 19 percent in 2000.”* How can marrieds interact with...

With no resurrection, there's no Easter Easter is the time of year to get together with loved ones and celebrate family traditions which often include: Easter dinner, jelly beans, Easter egg hunts and, of course, a trip to church. The big question is why bother going to church? If Jesus was simply a good man who lived 2,000 years ago, why...

As an instructor at a Christian writer's conference, I was scheduled to spend half-hour advisory sessions with students who signed up to talk to me. But my appointment with Jennifer* turned out to be a personal counseling session! "I'm divorced," the young woman told me. "I have two little children, and now they have been robbed of their father...