by Norman Powell
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...
by Devin Tooma
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...
by Stephan Herzog
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...
by Mandy Sutter
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....
by Angela Hakobyan-Shevko
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....
by Marilyn Beach
Ruby Mae remembers standing with a group of relatives in a strange living room while the adults discussed where she should sleep that night. Ruby Mae’s mother had left her toddler in Portland, Oregon, with one of her married brothers, while she headed south to look...
