By Jeni Griffin “Oh my gosh, these are amazing!” I exclaimed as my mom gasped at me in horror. After being in Africa for a year serving with Mercy Ships where the humidity is constantly 80-90% or more, stale nacho chips were a norm, so the bag of semi-stale chips seemed fantastic to me! For … Continue reading Many Blessings: Satisfaction after starvation
By Karen Swank I remember the first day I met her. She was in junior high. I was subbing and she was a handful in my class. Acting up, acting out, and just generally making her presence known. I’d been at this long enough by then that kids like her were secretly my favorites. Some … Continue reading Today, I Will Love
By Joe Gomez I made an old woman cry the other day, and it was great. Last Friday, one of my coworkers and I were in the back room at Borders where we unpack shipments and load the carts for shelving. We talked about how since there was only a short amount of time left … Continue reading Kindness to Strangers: Getting to the Source
By Jeff Goins, Editor I was at the mall this weekend, shopping with my wife. I noticed that, as I was going from store to store, feeling insecure about my un-trendiness, that Santa Claus was already taking pictures with the little ones. My wife and I argued about whether or not it was the “real” … Continue reading Holiday Cheer: What Songs Are You Singing?
By Matt Kok Is the “Little C” Church perfect? By no means. And it never has been. The belief that the institutionalized church in North America is hypocritical, dogmatic, out of touch, and no longer authentic is a broad statement. Perhaps a better way to look at it is this: There are some churches in … Continue reading Little C Church
By Kevin D. Hendricks Ive never been homeless. Ive never had to wonder where I was going to spend the night. Ive never had to contemplate sleeping in my car. Ive never had to consider who I would call if I lost my house and had nowhere to go. Ive never had to consider how … Continue reading Homeless For A Night
By Tim Kurek There are few people I’ve met in my life that capture what it means to be a CHRISTian as much as Jim Palmer, and it’s my hope that you’ll go pick up both Divine Nobodies & Wide Open Spaces. Jim’s background includes pastoral ministry, inner-city service, and international human rights work. As … Continue reading Jim Palmer: Interview with A Divine Nobody
By Mike Martin I wake to many things just for today Rising from my bed after The quickly falling night hours Into the breath of stillness, The mystery of beauty, Promise of a new day, The summons of emerging light. I know light appears, Then vanishes for us all, Surely a holy ceremony displayed. I … Continue reading Poem: Emerging Light
By Mariah Secrest Perhaps an orphan in Africa would not seem like the most likely candidate to speak to the power of togetherness. Disease, poverty, and death do not seem like features of community. Yet, the places where pain exists in its most dire form are the places in which the need for community is … Continue reading We Are Together: Lifting Voices in South Africa and the World
By Dann Niegocki I have a problem that seems to be accelerating yet again. My clothes don’t fit, or at least my old ones wear poorly on my body. It isn’t a fitting problem with my body getting larger or thinner but it is a “fitting” problem where they dont look correct on me. No, … Continue reading Changing Clothes: Living for Him