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“Ok, well, that got exciting.” I said to my husband after a whole bunch of things went wrong and we weren’t sure what was coming next. We were tired,...
“Ok, well, that got exciting.” I said to my husband after a whole bunch of things went wrong and we weren’t sure what was coming next. We were tired,...
“Time is flying by. And time is standing still,” a friend observed to me the other day, trying to sum up how life has felt during the coronavirus pandemic....
Newsletters. I wrote them for 18 years -- paper, email, and eventually some blog posts. Our organization had ‘checkers’ who made sure the content was free of grammatical errors...
I have been exercising for almost a decade and I have come to believe that it can be a profound spiritual experience as it nurtures both the body and the...
When we have an intern come and join our team, one of the first things I tell them about cultural adaptation is this: “Come here as a...
My Top Ten Children’s Books Now that I’m back in the States, I don’t have as much contingency planning to do, but if you’re overseas we all...
This one is for everyone. This week at Velvet Ashes we’re visiting with authors of books that we think will add value to your life and experience serving cross-culturally. At...
This is the book I wish we had when we started our international service as young marrieds in 2005 . . . and when we became parents . . ....
I bought toilet paper at the supermarket when I lived in NW China. That sounds like a funny thing to say, but it’s a distinction. I did not buy toilet...
I wish I’d discovered him sooner in my faith journey, but maybe I wasn’t ready before. Frederick Buechner (pronounced “Beekner”) is one of those authors who says what you think...
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