A LOVING LETTER TO MISSIONARY PARENTS

  [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 […]

MKs & SARCASM: Wielding Our Wit Wisely

  [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, […]

MKs, CHRIST, AND CORE IDENTITY

[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 […]

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