By Sarina Gumness As I write this article, I am going into my 12th week of pregnancy, which also means I have finally begun to tell people about this exciting news. Pregnancy has been very tough for me. People tell you about the normal symptoms but they do not prepare you to what extent that may lead. For me, my symptoms have been extreme. It’s been impossible...

Jan 23, 2020

By Carl Greene Executive Director I failed the vision test. There was no way around it: I simply could not see clearly. I was in the high school nurse’s office with my face pressed into the overgrown viewfinder. I was essentially looking through a stationary pair of binoculars into a little box where I was supposed to see sign markings down the edge of railroad...

Jan 23, 2020

Andy Samuels Chief Executive Director SDB Missionary Society Our world has become so much smaller because of the advent of the Internet. On the Internet, a brother in Bangladesh reached out to an SDB Pastor’s wife in Cumberland, Maryland. Her name is Karen Higson. Over the next almost two years, that connection blossomed and was nurtured, so that our brother in...

Jan 23, 2020

By Katrina Goodrich February 2020 is here and with it all the romantic airs of couples in love and the angst of people who aren’t. People tend to either love or loathe February 14—or they just choose to treat it as any other day. Any reaction you have to Valentine’s Day is fine—I’m not going to shame someone for finding joy in making sure at least one day of...

Jan 23, 2020

by Kevin Butler Ravi Zacharias is one of the foremost evangelical Christian apologists out there today. Ravi was actually invited to speak to several thousand Mormon leaders at their tabernacle in Salt Lake City. When he got the invitation (and after recovering from the shock), Ravi asked if any other evangelical had ever spoken to them. They said, “Well, over...

By Pastor Phil Lawton No, our second installment of Everyday Theology is not some weird slang for Bible dating. There has been a lot of news around these two topics recently. Though I plan to give a little background on two recent additions to Netflix’s lineup, the point is not to give a review in the typical sense. The point of this series is to apply the...

Barb Green, Parish Nurse Milton, WI When someone is struggling we want to help but may be afraid of saying the wrong thing, so we remain silent. Knowing what to say can be difficult—but it doesn’t have to be. Active Minds (activeminds.org) presents a three-step model which you may find useful. The steps are Validate, Appreciate, and Refer. Validate looks like...

Dec 27, 2019

By Levi Bond I have a coworker who relieves stress by playing with paper airplanes during breaks. One day last week he made a large one out of a sheet from an old desk calendar. He tossed it across the room. It cleared my desk and then nosedived to the floor. He told me about a childhood experience when his dad had a small airplane years ago. He would go for a...