As we were finishing a counseling session, Jill looked at me with concern, her eyebrows furrowed. “You got distracted,” she bluntly stated. Unfortunately, Jill was right. Just outside my workspace, several pastors gathered in the church office lobby, talking and laughing. I’d gotten sidetracked by t
Autumn is a season of changes. At our home, as the leaves yellowed and the days shortened, my youngest child started middle school. That means picture books have me feeling a little nostalgia for the past these days, right alongside a lot of excitement for new things to come. Man...
A couple of years ago, two college students challenged me—a woman in her 50s—to memorize the Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5–7). Inwardly, I balked, but now I know that few things in my 35 years of following Jesus have been more transformative than committing Jesus’s most famous ser...
In early October, a 20-year-old Coptic Christian was kidnapped and killed at the hands of the Islamic State group. Milad Malak lived in Sebarbay, Egypt, and served as a church deacon at a local Coptic church. However, because of the country’s economic decline, he traveled to Liby...
Countries: Haiti, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Ecuador, Peru . KEY FIGURES 1.5M people now internally displaced across Haiti 114K families affected by drought in Bolivia between June and October 56K people affected by El Niño-related rains in Ecuador HAITI: VIOLENCE ...
