All Courage. All Strength. All Light. {Book Club}
In his book Subversive Sabbath, A.J. Swoboda says, “The litmus test for true Christian ethics is how those who follow Christ love and serve and bless those who do...
Author: Rachel Kahindi
Danger {Book Club}
My generation of Americans are labeled as “the most risk averse generation since the Great Depression” (source). The source article is focusing on financial risk, but we are risk...
Right, Wrong or Different? {Book Club}
“It’s not right or wrong; it’s just different.” My first year overseas, I lived on a ship with an international crew. We visited many countries, but...
Gandhi, Francis of Assisi, Jesus, and Muslims {Book Club}
About seven and a half years ago, we took a day trip. A friend of ours drove us from Nyahururu, Kenya, to another town, Nanyuki, in the name of...
Rachel’s Top Five of 2019 {Book Club}
I can easily get sucked into reading a lot of forgettable fiction. I consume it in a few relaxing hours and forget almost everything about the book within days....
Old Fashioned Thanksgiving {Book Club}
You will read this after American Thanksgiving, but I am writing it before. So let me tell you about last year’s Thanksgiving. Since we’ve been in...
A Meal Shared, An Open Invitation {Book Club}
Living in Africa has taught me a lot about hospitality. I’m an introvert – and not the social “I like being around people but then I...
Weakness Works in Our Favor {Book Club}
“His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines.” –Judges 14:4 Samson has just...
Sorrow and Suffering: Traveling Companions {Book Club}
Here in Kenya, there are people called Intercessors. We had intercessors back in the US, too. But these are different. In the US, they were people who were committed...
Taking Things Personally {Book Club}
The electricity was off (of course), and the heat was oppressive. We had no water, so my husband had gone to another neighborhood to fill 15 20-liter jugs with...
