Blogging Through the Seasons

I spent my childhood in a troubled home. As the eldest, I often gathered my siblings into a room to protect them from the abuse my mother suffered at the hands of my stepfather. All I knew to do was to call the police. Though I longed for these events to be few and...

At every turn, I have not always responded to God’s leading. I reflect on the passage from Isaiah 48:17 (CEB), “I am the Lord your God who teaches you for your own good, who leads you in the way you should go.” I believe that God had to do a bit of pushing and shoving...

Ask the birds and they will tell you. Seek and ye shall find. Do not conform… but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Growing up in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, I absorbed a certain fear of the Book of Revelation. And I think that’s the reputation of the...

My first mending took place after my former girlfriend got pregnant and her baby’s father left her. I was a staunch advocate of bachelorhood and no kids, and I had immigrated from Switzerland to Australia a couple of years prior. Some inexplicable force compelled me...

During my last year or so of high school, I remember a conversation with my friend, Kelsey, when she had come to visit during a school break. We spontaneously and excitedly shared with each other that we’d each decided that we were Christians because we wanted to be....

I am Armenian. In 301 CE, Armenia became the first nation in the world to adopt Christianity as its official state religion. According to tradition, both Thaddeus and Bartholomew, two of Jesus’ twelve disciples, brought the gospel to Armenia and were martyred there....