Email subscribers, please click through to the website to watch the video. In Gena Thomas’ new book Separated by the Border: A Birth Mother, a Foster Mother, and a Migrant Child’s 3,000-Mile Journey, she tells the harrowing story of Julia, the 5-year-old girl who traveled from Honduras to the United States with her mother. After […]
Immigration, Foster Care and Tenacious Motherly Love: A Conversation With Gena Thomas & Leslie Verner
by on December 5, 2019 Leave a Comment
Why I Keep Returning To Palestine
by on October 23, 2019 Leave a Comment
Why do I keep returning to Palestine? Why, for the third year in a row, do I pack and board planes and change dollars into shekels? Why do I keep coming back to this place, and not Zanzibar or Paris or Morocco? I remember a conversation I had once with the then-U.S. ambassador to Burundi […]
Am I Good Enough?
by on May 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
by Belinda Bauman | Twitter: @belindajbauman | Instagram: @belidajbauman The following is an except from Belinda Bauman’s new book Brave Souls available now from Intervarsity Press and all of your favourite book sellers. Used with permission. What if empathy could save us? Make no mistake, I knew climbing Kilimanjaro would not be easy. For this reason, […]
The Red Couch: The Very Good Gospel Discussion
by on March 26, 2019 Leave a Comment
Scanning the list of Red Couch books for 2019, I stopped at The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper then read on and returned to it. Reading those words, I felt a longing stirring within me. I didn’t know the author or the book description, but I knew that I had to write about […]
Kneading Enough, A Picture of Empowerment
by on March 7, 2019 Leave a Comment
Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.” Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? It […]
