The prevalent landscape color was khaki-gray. Dust was everywhere, all the time, inside buildings and out, no matter how much cleaning took place. Air pollution resulted from diesel vehicles, unrestricted burning of trash and tires, open sewers, a...

“I feel stuck,” a friend confided as we sat and talked over brunch. We were in a season of life that involved a lot of waiting, and this waiting made her–and me–feel paralyzed. We felt like we couldn’t really start living until this season was ove...

We don’t know what Hagar knew of God before she fled to the desert, but we do know that He knew her. And He cared for her. Deeply. We know that He pursued her in the wilderness when her void-of-hope life was a tangled mess and full of mistreatment...

This past summer our high school age daughters traveled overseas to serve on short term internships. Since our family had lived abroad before, my husband and I felt comfortable letting them go.