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Deadly Emotions
Did you know that negative emotions can adversely affect your health? Depression, anger, guilt, condemnation, low self-esteem-these are only a few of the lethal toxins that threaten body and spirit...
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
Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
Taking Route is a group of expat women who want to reach out to other expat women around the globe and encourage them to take root, right where they’ve been planted.
One of the best...
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....
Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share ...
Grieving an Unfulfilled Dream
The reality of living overseas is that you are going to grieve multiple things, deeply. Anyone moving out of their passport country has a dream. Some want to help HIV patients o…
The Center for Complicated Grief
Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a form of grief that is persistent and pervasive and interferes with functioning. It’s characterized by persistent intense yearning, longing and/or pre...
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...
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…