by Raewyn Orlich
I was 21, had recently graduated from La Sierra University, and was serving at my first church as an assistant pastor. They were in their early 80s and had served the church as a ministerial couple for almost three times as long as I had been alive. Having no...
by Iki Taimi
“Hello?!” I sat quietly in my dorm room hoping that he would eventually go away but he just kept incessantly knocking and calling my name. My junior year in high school the campus Chaplain, Pastor Bill Kerasoma, who we endearingly called PK, visited me in my dorm room...
by Joy Fehr
“It’s easy to think of us as needing Jesus, but it’s pretty scandalous to think that Jesus would need us…” (Erickson, 183). Last night Cornelius and I watched an episode of Call the Midwife. The Poplar community rescues four severely neglected children who are living...
by Barbara Djordjevic
I was one of ten eager travelers who strained our necks as we drove into El Chaltén village. The object of our search was a pile of granite rocks. It was not just any pile of rocks. This one was considered worthy enough to prompt us to board planes and fly many long...
by Vanessa Mayorga
It happened on an early morning in 2021. I was on the verge of submitting a paper for my class when I heard a bang and a clatter. My skin crawled and I jumped in my seat. As I went to investigate, I was hoping that the noise was just the sound of something falling in...
by Honesto Pascual
There are three stages of labor in the birthing process; and there are two things that break during that process. In the first stage, the bag of waters (or amniotic sac) breaks spontaneously. In the second stage, the cord must be actively cut or severed by the...
