Articles
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 ...
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 ...
Q&A: Navigating Cultural Differences in Marriage
When two cultural backgrounds come together, the result can be a deeper and richer relationship. But potential obstacles need to be clearly identif ...
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 ...
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; ...
A Timely and Short Discourse on Grief
I’m not one to get weepy very often, but between the death of my aunt and two men from my circle of friends with spinal cord injuries, 11 weeks of ...
When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad
“Jesus looked up in the tree and said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down . . . and I’ll give you a Snicker bar.'” -ME: circa 1976 Mary Musgrave love ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...