mindonfire / FlickrHow to Keep Your Friends When Life Happens
Who are my friends?
With countless social media connections and the demands of family and kids—as well as career, church, and other commitments vying for time—we often find it hard to identify and maintain solid friendships. In addition, younger adults move around ...
The Stanford Rape Victim Said the Words I Couldn’t
“You don’t know me, but you’ve been inside me, and that’s why we’re here today.”
With these brief opening words of her unflinching testimony, one sexual assault victim, named Emily Doe to protect her privacy, knocked a nation to its knees.
Her ...
I’m a Woman Who Got Kicked Out of Women’s Bathrooms
The first time I was kicked out of a women’s restroom, I was ten years old.
At halftime of a high school basketball game, I walked into the restroom with several girlfriends and faced a trio of teenagers who blocked my entrance to a stall and told me to leave. A girl in ...
Kids Want What We Teach Them to Want
“Do your kids ever complain about going to church every week?” my friend asks.
She and her husband were raised in small countryside churches in the south of France, and while they were never zealous for the faith, they dutifully attended mass on Christmas and Easter ...
Fearfully and Autistically Made
It took seven months on a waiting list before my son could be evaluated for autism.
That time was a curse in many ways. Things got worse. He gave himself black eyes and gashes on his forehead because his body craved more input. He slept without clothes because he became too overwhelmed ...
Confessions of a Media-Protective Parent
If my memory holds and my body lasts into old age, I’m pretty sure I’ll still be able to sing all the words to Led Zeppelin’s 1971 hit, “Stairway to Heaven.” My kids, on the other hand, may have the lyrics from the CDs of Rebecca St. James and Delirious? ...
How to Address America’s Foster Care Crisis? It Takes a Village
Life as we knew it changed on April 16, 2000.
That’s the night my husband, John, and I sat at a friend’s dinner table surrounded by five girls between the ages of 5 and 15. Some were adopted; others were there through foster care. She told us, “There are orphans ...
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