How Was Your Sabbatical?
When people ask me, “How was your sabbatical?” I am reminded of arriving back in America after a term and people asking me, “So how was China?”...
Category: Spiritual Formation
Building a Daily Foundation of Renewal
For all of us, all around the world, this has been one unbelievable, unimaginable year. The daily tensions, headlines and continuous flow of words feeds the...
Processing God
Who is God to you? We know what the Scriptures tell us about God. We read that he is faithful to the faithless, gentle, loving, slow...
Re-entry is Not a Returning
I thought I’d have words of wisdom about re-entry after two years back stateside. It’s a surprise and a disappointment to me that I am still struggling to find...
My Cup Runneth Over
It was there in the Garden of Eden, in the circling of the wilderness, and in the sufferings of Job. It was evident on the tongues of the Pharisees,...
Science, Pandemic and Me
Has God ever revealed something to you suddenly? Have you ever felt a switch go off in your brain that resets your perspective? I have....
Full Circle
It was a warm spring day in the small market town where I lived in rural Asia and from my window I could see the glint of sun-kissed rice...
A Tale of Two Mentors and The God Who Always Sees
Once upon a time there was a woman with two mentors - mentors she didn’t know she even needed. The two mentors had different styles, but...
Beyond the Mountaintop
My husband and I just relocated to our third country in the last two years. Each time we move, we get to travel once again on that lovely cultural-adjustment...
Hiding with Eve
I have been thinking a lot about Adam and Eve recently, about why God created them (and us), what their sin was and why they were expelled from the...
