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7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, y ...
Tips on security and longer term engagement for short term mission trips
Two experts respond to these questions on security and longer term engagement we received from a ministry leader in Brazil: I’d like to hear about ...
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 ...
Culture and Conflict Resolution
After years of relative neglect, culture is finally receiving due recognition as a key factor in the evolution and resolution of conflicts. Unfortu ...
What do I do with re-stirring grief?
On Tuesday, we discussed cumulative and anticipatory grief, both in general, and in our current climate of COVID-19. I noted that the goal of deali ...
What is Grief?
Talking about a familiar topic like grief, it is easy to read this on autopilot. “Yup, I know what grief is.” But stick with me, I think you’ll be ...
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 ...
Pauline Boss — Navigating Loss Without Closure
The family therapist who created the field of “ambiguous loss” with practical wisdom on how to live with what’s lost.
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 ...
Book Recommendation: The Bible and Borders
A Book Review & Recommendation for "The Bible and Borders: Hearing God's Word on Immigration"
Why Making Space Isn't Enough
Welcoming Strangers recommends this article from Banner. The world today feels as divisive as ever. Abortion, refugee resettlement, immigratio ...
Voices Around the World
Gordon & Ute Carkner share snippets from letters they've received from past alumni at UBC.