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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...

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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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....

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.

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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...

Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 ...

7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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...

Frozen Grief: Why it Matters to Global Nomads
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

I was not aware of the concept of frozen grief until I stumbled across an article by Marilyn Gardner of Communicating Across Boundaries. All of a sudden pieces of the puzzle started falling into pl...

When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 ...

God of Loss
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

COMMUNICATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES