[This article is also available on the Pondering Purple podcast. Simply search for it by name on your preferred podcast platform or listen online HERE.]   “One of my favorite moments in Star Trek is when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there, someone is saying the three most beautiful words in […]

There were ghouls, witches and zombies wandering around my neighborhood in October. Some wore pink sneakers under their torn bed sheets. Others had lollipop smudges on their chins. All held bags and baskets at arms’ length, hoping their harmless evilness would score them extra loot. But there is nothing harmless about true evil. Neither in […]

[Update: HALF of the need mentioned below has been met as of today!! Just $1,000 per month to. Yay, God!]   I love this ministry. I love that God called me to it nearly thirty years ago and that it’s flourishing in new ways today. I love witnessing missionary families going from broken to mended […]

    Anxiety is alive and well on the mission field. I think it has found fertile soil in a subculture where physical exhaustion, spiritual depletion and unsustainable expectations can be the norm. For some of us, anxiety will be a chronic condition. For others it will be a seasonal companion. Whatever its nature, anxiety […]

  My pastor just got a car. His van was totaled in a wreck and just as he and his wife were considering what it would take to finance a new vehicle, someone they know offered them a Volvo. This past Sunday, he spoke with awe in his voice about the miraculous provision for his […]

[Several emails and phone calls, in recent days, from MKs who are hurting prompted this article. But pain is a universal thing, and if you or someone you love are suffering, MK or not, perhaps this can offer some hope and guidance.] We sat in a large, empty room in the basement of a pediatric […]

In 2008, when I was facing a daunting medical battle, I began to watch a little show called The Bachelor. I didn’t really question its content and focused on its entertainment value. It afforded me a bit of an escape from my torturous reality and I considered the insipid saga of romantic pursuit to be fairly […]

“If you came back, you wanted to leave again. If you went away, you longed to come back. Wherever you were, you could hear the call of the herdsman’s horn far away in the hills. You had one home out there and one over here and yet you were an alien in both places. Your […]

[Cross-posted on this Remembrance Day on The Girl Who Wore Freedom, a documentary coming in 2019. See end of post to learn how you can be a part of it.] It’s the sound of their boots I heard first, as I stood among pastures on the outskirts of Carentan. Not the ordered, rhythmic thumps of […]

[Based on the chapter I was asked to write for an upcoming collaborative book: Pipeline – Engaging the Church in Missionary Mobilization. Follow me on Facebook for release and purchase information.] Julianne is a Missionaries’ Kid from Italy. Growing up on the Old Continent, she trained for ten years as a classical dancer, eventually earning […]