July 07, 2025
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Lack of “home”
“Mom, can I do my senior year of high school in the USA?” asked my 17-year-old daughter, who’d been born, raised and homeschooled in Fiji. Three years of online high school in an isolated location (topped off by 6 months of at-home covid quarantin...
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July 04, 2025
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Raising kids cross-culturally
Lack of “home”
Identity in Christ
“I just want to live in Arizona,” my 8-year-old sobbed as we drove away from his cousins' house last summer, “but I don't want to leave Lebanon to do it!”
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July 03, 2025
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Intercultural relationships
The word ‘home’ puts quite an array of pictures in my head. Places that have welcomed me each night. What an album! But the privilege of living in Asia has also given me the joy and adventure of being invited into a much larger number of
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July 02, 2025
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Lack of “home”
Rest
Waiting in the car while my husband made a last sweep for his car keys to begin the trek to our new city of residence, I looked carefully at the house. I marveled at the green backyard and the glorious perennials I had planted over the past years ...
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