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How Do You Preach the Gospel and Breastfeed? Adventures of a Female Evangelist

By on March 20, 2013 in courage, everyday life, gender, gutsy girls, missions

I’m thrilled to be featuring a guest post from Jessica Fick, who I met last week on Twitter and promptly fell in love with. (The fact that she happened to be in Wisconsin right then for an evangelistic crusade at UW-River Falls didn’t hurt, either–the photos in this post are from that.) Enjoy!  I pulled [...]

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Missions, Evangelism, and the “Other”

By on September 6, 2012 in missions

I’m a big fan of missions. I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Liberia, West Africa, as a missionary kid. I went on several short-term missions trips as a teen, and see no need to apologize for the “wasted resources” such life-changing experiences are sometimes accused of squandering. I still see refrigerator magnets [...]

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