by Kathy Banta | Jul 29, 2016 | Life Issues
I was walking through the grocery store checking items off my list as a young woman walked past me on her cell phone. She was in a serious conversation as a little girl and a little boy trailed behind her in a single-file line. I heard parts of her conversation and...
by Kathy Banta | Jul 4, 2016 | Life Issues
At the start of kindergarten, the concept of “bullying” was foreign to me. I was shy, because I hadn’t been around a lot of children other than my siblings. I didn’t know that kids would single out one another and pick on them, as I had been...
by Guest Contributor | May 19, 2016 | Life Issues
Lately, I’ve been contemplating our tendency to allow the labels we’ve accepted for ourselves to prescribe our behaviors. I’ve drawn conclusions about my own attributes just as we probably all have. I’ve taken many personality tests and investigated different...
by Terrin Boozikee | May 9, 2016 | Life Issues
Last semester, one of my professors came to class with a meditation around the idea of “already, but not yet.” I’ve never found an adequate one-liner that sums up all of Christianity, but this phrase intrigued me. Because it’s about the struggle, the in-between. It...
by Kristin Demery | Apr 28, 2016 | Life Issues
We like to talk about the fun parts of parenting – the wonder of a baby’s tiny toes, the cute things our kids say or expressions they make, and how they snuggle up to us. But sometimes, if I’m honest, parenting can be ugly. I feel intensely vulnerable in acknowledging...
by Kathy Banta | Apr 21, 2016 | Health and Wellness, Life Issues
By the time my youngest son was three months old, I knew something was different. He didn’t sleep like my first two children slept. He didn’t respond to me like my first two children did. He stiffened his body when I held him. (I held him anyway.) He...
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