“Ugh, I can hear you!” I said with frustration underneath my breath, but still loud enough for my mom to hear.

Most of us as cross-cultural workers are well-accustomed to obeying in the hard decisions. After all, we left everything that was familiar and traveled to foreign lands filled with different languages, cultures, and customs. Many of us felt a clea...

I couldn’t believe the words that had come out of my mouth. I had just said I would be willing to go to a place I’d hated. When I’d left that country five years before, a friend asked if I would ever consider going back. I had adamantly avowed, “N...

It was the summer before my oldest started grade 10. We lived in a semi-remote part of the island, so we homeschooled. Our son wanted to play soccer for the Christian school on the other side of the island. He also wanted to dorm. My husband and I...