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Sex and the Married Missionary

Turns out, the power of a non-functioning sex life to taint everything is stronger than the power of a healthy sex life to improve everything.

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August 21, 2020
Solo Zone: Whither the Single Male Missionary?

David Brainerd was one. So was Henry Martyn. And James Gilmour spent most of his career as one. Single men serving as cross-cultural miss ...

August 21, 2020
Redeeming Singleness: How the Storyline of Scripture Affirms the Single Life

Though marriage is highly esteemed throughout Scripture, the Bible also affirms singleness as an important calling for some Christians. Redeem ...

August 21, 2020
Whats your Grief - A Grief Website for the Rest of Us

What's Your Grief is a grief website and online community for grieving people and grief support professionals. We honor all types of loss and grief ...

August 21, 2020
Helping Children Deal With Grief

You can't protect your kids from the pain of loss of a loved one, but you can help build healthy coping skills which will serve them well in adulth ...

August 21, 2020
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …

Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; ...

August 21, 2020
Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure

Pauline Boss coined the term “ambiguous loss” and invented a new field within psychology to name the reality that every loss does not hold a promis ...

August 21, 2020
When Grief Gets Complicated

One may ask when grief is not complicated?! The essence of grief is that it is complicated. Grief impacts many aspects of life and your sense of st ...

August 21, 2020
The Center for Complicated Grief

Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) is a form of grief that is persistent and pervasive and interferes with functioning. It’s characterized ...

August 21, 2020
God of Loss

COMMUNICATING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

August 21, 2020
Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. –Elie Wiesel Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in com ...

August 21, 2020
Frozen Grief: Why it Matters to Global Nomads

I was not aware of the concept of frozen grief until I stumbled across an article by Marilyn Gardner of Communicating Across Boundaries. All of a s ...

August 21, 2020