My Second Life is the sequel to The Terrifying Delight of Losing Everything. In November 2020, Philip was diagnosed with ALS. Five years later, he...
Marieke Mostert was only seven years old when she was hit by a car while cycling to school in the Netherlands. As she hovered between life and...
There’s a scene in the early moments of Peter Jackson’s movie, The Hobbit, that always makes me smile. Bilbo Baggins (the character from the title)...
I kept it a secret for two years. No one but my family knew how sick I really was.
When Turks look at Christians, they don’t think good thoughts. They think about Turkish history, about Constantine and the Crusades. They think...
While the Trinity might be hard to explain, I love the image of community found in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God has created us for...
There was a moment when he wondered, “What am I doing here, trimming dead leaves off banana trees, week after week?”
When war fills our screens and the language of death becomes ordinary again, something in us recoils. It should. Human beings were not made for...
“Everything felt familiar,” B marveled. “Even though we did not understand the language, our hearts connected deeply with the people, the culture,...
While Jesus gave us plenty of things to do—repent (Matthew 4:17), believe (John 14:1); love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind...
I met Fatima during the women’s French class at La Maison Blanche, where I am living during my FOCUS internship. She was from Morocco, but had...