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Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life
Though marriage is highly esteemed throughout Scripture, the Bible also affirms singleness as an important calling for some Christians. Redeeming Singleness expounds a theology of singlen...
Q&A: Navigating Cultural Differences in Marriage
When two cultural backgrounds come together, the result can be a deeper and richer relationship. But potential obstacles need to be clearly identified and frankly addressed before moving ahead.
...Missionary Marriage Issues - Missionary Care
17 articles about marriage. Can be downloaded as ebook.
By: Ron and Bonnie Koteskey
Sex and the Married Missionary
Turns out, the power of a non-functioning sex life to taint everything is stronger than the power of a healthy sex life to improve everything.
Solo Zone: Whither the Single Male Missionary?
David Brainerd was one. So was Henry Martyn. And James Gilmour spent most of his career as one. Single men serving as cross-cultural missionaries. It's a short list by almost any measure....
When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad
“Jesus looked up in the tree and said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down . . . and I’ll give you a Snicker bar.'” -ME: circa 1976 Mary Musgrave loved that story. Not the Zacc…
When Grief Gets Complicated
One may ask when grief is not complicated?! The essence of grief is that it is complicated. Grief impacts many aspects of life and your sense of stability; the core of who you are is displaced.&nbs...
Helping Children Deal With Grief
You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulthood.
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, you can rest the upper body, allowing the muscles t...
A Timely and Short Discourse on Grief
I’m not one to get weepy very often, but between the death of my aunt and two men from my circle of friends with spinal cord injuries, 11 weeks of isolation, the current racial tensions ravaging ou...
An Empty Ocean and the 10 Things We Must Remember About Grief
Walking alone at a park, a friend of mine saw a woman busily walking towards her, dictating something into her phone. The woman looked earnest and concentrated. She came closer and closer, and as h...