When anxiety takes root
In the fall of 2019, my church offered a five-week home group study on the topic of anxiety. Little did we know just how...
Our Ukrainian invasion
In April 2022, I was attending USMB Leadership Board meetings in San Diego, and I was having difficulty focusing. My mind was drifting 17...
Help! We’re surrounded
We live surrounded by tablets, smart phones, smart watches and smart TVs. Screens are increasingly unavoidable, and in a recent survey, 84 percent of...
Worth it
Psalm 5:3 says, “Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly” (NLT).
It was...
The way we were
Life changes people. The question is, how and in what ways? We may grow up in similar circumstances, attend the same college and be...
Understanding common U.S. immigration terms
It’s important to remember that a person’s legal status does not define who they are in Christ or their inherent worth as a child...
Change transforms us
Since my early teen years, I’ve harbored a more than mild interest in our feathered friends. My ninth-grade teacher had a remarkable love of...
Changing seasons
Change is often perceived as negative and oh. so. hard! What once was, now looks different. Routines have shifted or the people around us...