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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.
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.
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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....
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.
...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...
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; Katie helps explain how your grief stirs up other ...
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...
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…
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.
Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promise of anything like resolution. Amid this pandemic,...
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...