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Deadly Emotions
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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...

Solo Zone: Whither the Single Male Missionary?
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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....

Sex and the Married Missionary
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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.

Q&A: Navigating Cultural Differences in Marriage
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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.

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Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

 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...

The Center for Complicated Grief
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

“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…

Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

What's Your Grief is a grief website and online community for grieving people and grief support professionals. We honor all types of loss and grief.

An Empty Ocean and the 10 Things We Must Remember About Grief
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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...