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If Christmas tends to bring out the loneliness in your own life, here are a few things that helped me deal with the challenges of the Christmas season.

When I was single, some of my most awkward conversations happened when I went home for the holidays. Well-meaning friends and relatives inquired about my (usually non-existent) relationship status. On the bright side, they seemed truly baffled that I w …

Be faithful to your existing friends, but leave space in your life for new ones. You never know how valuable those relationships may prove to be.

I worked at a clinic while in college, and once had an awkward interaction with a patient that still makes me uncomfortable when I think about it. I became a friendly acquaintance to a woman in her early 20s, and she wore what they call a “halo” around …

Recently, God did something unexpected when I started drowning in anxiety, and I’m still in awe.

Dr. Kent Brantly and his wife, Amber, put a name and face on the Ebola epidemic during the summer of 2014. The missionary couple was serving in Monrovia, Liberia, when Kent got the devastating news that he had contracted the deadly disease. Kent was tr …

Last week, only a month after four people died in a shootout in downtown Colorado Springs, tragedy struck my community again. During a standoff between police and a gunman at a Planned Parenthood clinic, two civilians and one police officer were shot a …

During my 12 months in Haiti as a missionary, every day was a hot mess — but working with missions teams could be even messier. I vividly remember one particular day when I sat with a visiting mission team in dusty, standstill traffic after a long day …