Category: ministry kids
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 ...
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 ...
Toxic Christianity: When Our Public Face Poisons Faith
If there's one thing that leaves me completely aghast, it's Christians hurting one another and using religion to justify their behavior, or citing it as the reason that they didn't step in to defend the hurting, vulnerable party. It's the child ...
Melody Harrison Hanson wrote a beautiful, brave post on her blog today about her experience growing up with a father who "was in ministry and was a generous, gracious, loving, God-fearing man," but who was also abusive. In fact, he ...
Missionary Kid-Palooza! New Resources for TCKs on the Way
Michele Phoenix knows a thing or two about missionary kids. Born in France to an American mother and Canadian father, she attended Black Forest Academy, a school for missionary kids in Germany, and eventually wound up teaching there for the ...
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, 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 ...
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. ...
