How has the pandemic formed you?
On a Zoom call with my long-time running buddy Maryam this morning, the day in between her birthday and mine, we looked back at a year. Would we have imagined a year like the one [...]
Waiting for the light of freedom
Advent is a time of waiting, and at our border (and indeed, at other borders around the world), travelers are waiting, now, for the chance to find new life. They are waiting for the chance [...]
Best surprise of old age? Writing her own book
This is the first in an occasional series of customer profiles. A Powerful Story just helped Barbara McLennan, age 80, publish a book. "Keri Wyatt Kent lives up to her Powerful Story name. She successfully [...]
The surprising secret to experiencing abundance
We all long for it: the abundant life. I don't know about you, but I stand against a scarcity mentality steeped in fear. I want to believe that I have more than enough, even when [...]
When Did Everybody Else Get So Old?
Jennifer Grant, one of my favorite authors and favorite people, has a new book out: When Did Everybody Else Get So Old: Indignities, Compromises and the Unexpected Grace of Midlife. It is a collection of [...]
Embracing inconvenience and finding GodSpace
#wewelcomerefugees I’d seen the hashtag. #wewelcomerefugees I knew my friend Jane did some work with refugees. I’d written about them (in books and blog posts and also for Christianity Today), even had a refugee family [...]
Ever feel like a “single mom”?
When my children were small, and my husband worked crazy hours, I would often complain that I felt like a single mom. I had no idea, really. Sure, it was hard schlepping the kids around [...]
Would you rather be free?
Given the choice, would you rather be free, or a slave? That might feel like a goofy question, right? But it is so easy for us to choose slavery, unwittingly. We're captive to the busyness [...]
Fragile foster kids find a home
Where do the kids who no one wants go? How do foster kids who are "difficult to place" because of their medical challenges find a home? Sometimes, the story of a family captures your imagination [...]
Head of the household?
“Why did God make man the head of the household?” That question stared up at me from the study one of the men in our small group had written. We were discussing a chapter from [...]