Category: africa
It's funny how these things come full circle in our lives. While working on the message about the need for women to find their identity in Christ, instead of in their relationships with others, I've been thinking a lot about ...
Adoption, Women, and BFFs: More Jumbled Thoughts
Writing isn't supposed to be therapy--at least not the kind that happens outside your journal. But sometimes it is. This was certainly the case with my recent post about adoption. I was always a little bit conflicted about it, aware that ...
Living in the Mess: The Problem With Outcome-Based Christianity
My post about the orphan crisis and world missions is up at Red Letter Christians today. I've always struggled a little with that post, feeling that it didn't quite express what I wanted to get across, so imagine my delight ...
Going There: Another Take on the Orphan Crisis
It's been just over two years since a magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti, killing more than a quarter of a million people and leaving thousands of children orphaned, overwhelming a nation already in crisis. Kristen Howerton, who has adopted from ...
Is Jesus the Anti-Santa? Kids, Ministry and Super-Sized Sacrifice
I know I wasn't going to blog this week, but my blogging button got pushed, hard. First, I saw a video of an absolutely adorable little girl who is "donating" her birthday to raise money for the famine in the Horn ...
Liberia has not been leaving me alone for the last month or so. I haven't been there since 1988, since I was a confused, hurting 11-year-old with nut brown skin and white-blonde braids. But it has been chasing me down. I ...
“It’s more dangerous to be a woman than to be a soldier…”
The PBS documentary "Women, War & Peace" will be starting tonight. I never watch television, but I will be watching this. Check your local listings to see what time it will be on in your area. Watch the full episode. See ...
Liberia, the Nobel Peace Prize, and Me
On Friday, three women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their commitment to women’s rights. Two of those women, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, were from Liberia, the country I called home for most of my elementary school ...
Have you heard of Katie Davis? The 19-year-old class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee who "quit her life" to begin a ministry in Uganda and become a foster mother to 14 girls? Katie's new book was released on October 4th, and ...
Reckless
I linked to a post on her blog once before, but can I just suggest that everyone hop over to Katie Davis's blog a couple times a month?Oh. My. Gosh.She's a young, twenty-something girl who followed God's call to Uganda, and his ...
Katie Davis Throws Down the Gauntlet
Well, I was going to write a blog post today, but I stumbled across one that was FAR better than anything I was going to write, and decided to share that with you instead. It has nothing to do with ...
Who Took the "Christ" out of "Christian"?
I've been thinking a lot lately about what it really means to be a Christian, and about the challenges of being or calling oneself a Christian in American society. As a missionary kid in Liberia, I had friends from many ...
Emotional Vomit–Proceed with Caution
I am halfway through the book "The Irresistable Revolution" by Shane Claiborne, and it is making me cry. Shane is one of the founders of "The Simple Way" in Philidelphia, a community committed to--well, you'll have to read the book. ...
