By Kelly Carr As I write this, I have recently experienced the joy of the International Conference on Missions (ICOM). When I consider this week’s topic of calling and purpose, all the wonderful people I met at ICOM come to mind. Walking the exhibit hall at ICOM is fascinating, inspiring, and humbling. It’s fascinating to […]
By Laurel Thomas “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19). Murky brown sky raced toward me as I drove home from the grocery store. All afternoon winds had blown a stifling […]
By David Faust I like a variety of music, at least in small doses. When it’s played with excellence I enjoy listening to jazz, classic rock, and country and western. I’m not a highbrow guy, but I respect classical music, and my wife and I have attended a few symphonies over the years. (My goal […]
By Meg Foster The word safety invokes a comfort to most. The definition itself suggests such. But to others like me, the wild ones, the word safety has never been a comfort. To us it has been a word that gets in our way, that thwarts our plans, that threatens our need to take risks. […]
By Daniel Darling Last year, Jeannie and Jim Gaffigan announced they were stopping production of their popular The Jim Gaffigan Show, which portrayed a fictitious version of the everyday life of their devoutly Catholic family. Jeannie, the producer of the show, explained to disappointed fans on Twitter their reasoning: “Our real lives, marriage and family […]
