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What Love Is And What We Should Do About It

February 7, 2015 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

No thanks, Hollywood. I’ll get my definition of love somewhere else. In a culture already rife with human trafficking and pornography addiction (much of it violent), we don’t need an ought-to-be-X-rated film to try to

Moving and Bridge-Building

January 17, 2015 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

Missionaries move a lot. Our three-year-old Giant tagged along as we traveled from place to place. To place. From his home in smalltown Poland to a missionary-house in South Carolina where his sister (Bean) joined

Come to Me

December 12, 2014 Will Schmit Culture

A friend of mine, good solid stand up guy, was disturbed because a homosexual man took communion at his church. He deemed the man unworthy of the Lord’s table because of the man’s lifestyle. I

The Day After

November 5, 2014 Ron Culture

I’d like to think that America wasn’t always dividing by party affiliation, but I suspect what’s happening in our country today is nothing new. Or, I should say, what happened yesterday is nothing new.

Let No One Despise Your Youth

November 4, 2014 Cindy K. Sproles Culture, Home

Sandy Kirby Quandt Of ten times children and teens are treated as if they are unimportant to the work of God’s Kingdom. In 1 Timothy 4:12, the Apostle Paul told Timothy not to let anyone

To Tattoo or not to Tattoo

October 10, 2014 Will Schmit Culture

I have ink. My wife has ink. Our youngest daughter has outrageous ink. We are not circus folk. I could argue that personal body ink has, or at least ought to have meaning. Mine all

What are you sharing?

September 17, 2014 Ron Culture

Hi, I’m Ron and I’m a facebook addict. There. That’s better. Now, for all of you who never venture into social networking sites, you may skip this post and go about your day, though I

Atlas Girl – Finding Faith in Unexpected Places

July 7, 2014 Pirate Preacher Culture, Home

When I had the opportunity to review Atlas Girl, I took it because part of her tagline is “Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look.” Having been on the move with my husband and our family for the past six years, I’ve found myself longing for a place to call home. Emily’s tagline caught my attention, and I wondered how far she had to travel to find “home.” I wondered if our stories would mingle.

Too Much About Comfort

June 21, 2014 Bethany Kaczmarek Culture

I am entirely too concerned with my own comfort. Granted, I’m thirty-nine weeks pregnant and stretched to my limit (in various ways). And in the last six months, I’ve had pneumonia, pleurisy, two kidney

Little Infinities

June 17, 2014 Ron Culture, Home

The Fault in Our Stars is a best-seller for a reason. And John Green expresses some wisdom that applies to Christians as well.