By Kimberly Phyfe I’m Learning To Be Both Mary and Martha
Here we are again—another familiar season in the church calendar, another return to the words that have shaped so many…
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By Michelle Moreno-Apolo 10 Years after My Mother’s Death, Her Faith Still Guides Me
Growing up, I was a reluctant Catholic. My mother would drag us to church, and I'd go through the motions—fingers…
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When You Feel Like There’s Not Enough of You to Go Around
By the end of the day, I’ve been stretched in a dozen different directions. I’ve been the teacher, the referee,…
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By Kara Helton God, Did You See Me as My Heart Shattered?
Trigger warning: This post discusses the death of a child. God, did you see me? There in the family waiting…
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By Izzy Koo God Gives Hope To the Brokenhearted
A little over a year ago, four girls at Pepperdine—no, four beautiful friends—passed away tragically in a car accident. I…
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Your Past Does Not Define You
A few summers ago, my husband and I took our three teenage boys to the movies. We settled into our…
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By Kristina Tretter Don’t Have It All Together? None of Us Do.
The laundry isn’t folded. The dishes aren’t washed. There are remnants of blueberry yogurt scattered from breakfast, and now there…
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In Praise of the Honest Mistake: How Mistakes Open Doors to Grace
After whirling down the basement steps on tiptoe, I opened the washer’s lid to shift the clean clothes to the…
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By Shannon Leadbeater Here I Am Again in the Pit of Despair
I teeter on the edge of the abyss. This isn’t unfamiliar territory. I’ve been here before. On the precipice of…
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By Lisa Kottenstette Mom’s Unspeakable Joy
After my mom had a stroke, she could not speak and could barely move the right side of her body.…
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By Ruthann Weece Breaking Free from Christian Supermom Culture
If you grew up in the Church in the late 1980s to the early 2000s and you're a woman, this…
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I Wanted to Give My Kids My Faith—but They Had to Find It on Their Own
I recently read the testimony of one of my children, and it rocked my world. Not only because of the…
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