Looking around the sanctuary, I felt the familiar twinge of loneliness — the husband gently rubbed the shoulders of his pregnant wife, an engaged couple exchanged loving glances, a mother hushed her restless toddler. I’m the only single person here, I …
When the news first broke last May that Josh Duggar had molested five young girls, including four of his sisters, I, along with the rest of the world, watched as the sordid tale unfolded. It was horribly sad, to say the least, to see a man with a famil …
When Karen Swallow Prior was a child, church wasn’t a place that she associated with belonging, even though she was immersed in Christian culture. Books, on the other hand, were her refuge, a place where she came alive, an escape from the boredom of se …
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (Proverbs 4:23, NIV). It seems that in recent times, guarding my heart is something I’ve had to learn a lot about, and I am realizing how very much I still have to learn. For a sin …
I’ve talked about the benefits of counseling before. As a single, I spent time with a counselor, working through some things where I needed some perspective. Tyler had a similar experience, so when we got engaged, we were both committed to doing pre-ma …
The last 25 years have been monumental for the evangelical subculture — it was a time in which we saw the explosive growth of megachurches, the prominence of the True Love Waits campaign, and the end of dc Talk. If you were raised as an evangelical dur …
All spouses have needs, preferences, expectations and concerns they bring into marriage.
I’ve always loved to travel and study other cultures. I went on missions trips in high school and dreamed about the day I could see the world. So studying abroad in college was never a question of if but rather a question of where. Even though I was an …
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