[This article also exists in audio form. You can listen to it on The Pondering Purple Podcast available on most platforms or by clicking HERE.] After a brief hiatus filled by guest posts, I’m back in the saddle. The time I took off to write my upcoming book yielded 170 pages that will […]
[This article also exists in audio form. You can listen to it on The Pondering Purple Podcast available on most platforms or by clicking HERE.] This is the third installment of GPS, a Pondering Purple project whose initials stand for Guest Post Series. The first installment is here and the second is here. GPS will serve two […]
[This article also exists in audio form. You can listen to it on The Pondering Purple Podcast available on most platforms or by clicking HERE.] This is the second installment of GPS, a Pondering Purple project whose initials stand for Guest Post Series. The first installment is here. GPS will serve two purposes: […]
[This article also exists in audio form. You can listen to it on The Pondering Purple Podcast available on most platforms or by clicking HERE.] Hi, friends. Welcome to the first installment of GPS, a Pondering Purple project whose initials stand for Guest Post Series. For the next few weeks, I’ll be featuring […]
[This article also exists in audio form. You can listen to it on The Pondering Purple Podcast available on most platforms or by clicking HERE.] Dear Missionary parents, I honor you and affirm you. You are raising families in complicated cross-cultural settings that are at once exhilarating and exhausting. You’re managing so […]
[This article also exists in podcast form. You can listen to it on Pondering Purple, HERE.] I’m sure you’ve experienced it too. That moment when you meet someone in a boringly predictable setting—like an office party—and she says, “This is the most fun I’ve had in my lifetime!” with that derisive intonation that really says, […]
[An audio version of this article is available on the Pondering Purple podcast, which you can access by clicking HERE. Note that it does not contain the full selection of quotes from TCKs available in this written format.] In Part One of this series (Making the Decision), we centered the TCK in […]
[An audio version of this article is available on the Pondering Purple podcast, which you can access by clicking HERE. Note that it does not contain the full selection of quotes from TCKs available in this written format.] This article is not a manifesto on the validity or value of boarding schools. […]
[As always, the audio version of this post is available on Pondering Purple, but you’ll be missing out on the graphics and illustrations if you merely listen. If that’s still your preference, click here.] As you can see below, this one’s a video! I developed it to help the broader Christian world to better understand […]
[The audio version of this article is available on the Pondering Purple podcast. Click HERE to listen or find it on your preferred podcast platform.] In the years I’ve spent leading sessions about Third Culture Kids, I’ve referred to the traits we gain from growing up between worlds as our “Identity.” We tend to be […]