My daughter’s name, Alaina, means “bright shining light.” It fits her. Consequently, when she was little, I spent my time at many church music...
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My daughter’s name, Alaina, means “bright shining light.” It fits her. Consequently, when she was little, I spent my time at many church music...
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In 2019, sitting in the audience among thousands at a Chinese Mission convention, I felt that the speaker was speaking directly to me: “We...
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Let me start by admitting that I was once that lost student, pursuing all the worldliness of college life and running from true freedom...
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My husband and I have completely different careers—he crunches numbers and I punch out prose—I’m an English professor. The demands of our careers and...
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This summer while camping, my daughter and I found large river mussels in a freshwater creek. Although we found no actual pearls inside, we did
Covid was the worst thing and the best thing to happen to our faculty group. It nearly killed our in-person groups, but gave rise to
As a new professor I was committed to living out my life as a follower of Jesus, but I knew that doing so in community
A friend loves at all times,and a brother is born for a time of adversity. – Proverbs 17:17 In Spring 2021, I was diagnosed with
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