"Hello, Pittsburgh!" The words rang out as if from a celebrity on a concert tour, and a smile broke across my face. A few months before, I’d moved to a bustling town in England where I occasionally shopped at a little specialty deli. The proprieto...

Who are my people?

I moved away from family and friends after getting married, and one of the hardest things about the move was the feeling of being unknown. There’s nothing like the feeling of plopping down on the couch next to someone who knows and loves you deepl...

Oftentimes, death is much more commonplace in non-Western countries. Still, it’s ugliness rips color from our world, gripping hearts with fear. When death appeared for the first time in my early childhood, God used it to begin teaching me what it ...