Seeing those two pink lines on a pregnancy test when you’re not actively trying for a baby can be an incredibly overwhelming experience. Chances are, in that moment, you don’t exactly know how you feel. Maybe your contraception failed, or perhaps a one-off encounter caught you off guard. Perhaps either you or your partner had…
Best-selling family devotional author Marty Machowski helps families celebrate the Passion and Easter weeks with his new two-in-one, upside down book, Darkest Night Brightest Day. Focusing on the main events of the week of the crucifixion, Darkest Night is designed for families to read beginning on Palm Sunday, but… you can pick up on any day, that’s how good this…
Healthcare is something we always need to take seriously, but it’s particularly important when there’s a crisis going on in your life. And when that crisis is on a global scale, and no one is too sure where they are right now, you’ll have to come up with a proper plan that you can stick…
Colombian born designer Claudia Pieschacon, always attracted to the art of jewelry, and loving to work with her hands decided in 2007 to put all her efforts, talent, and creativity to self-train as a jeweler. Having graduated from the New York School of Interior Design in New York City with a background in painting and…
In my first piece, I wrote that we are not to be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, by the way we think. We do that by holding to biblical truths, not cultural trends. In my second piece, I discussed the results of that practice, the reality that…
“Nothing’s wrong if nothing’s true.” –Lorde We live in an age that has redefined almost everything. We’ve redefined love. We’ve redefined life. We’ve redefined right and wrong, male and female, gender and sex. We have torn down the definitions and erected new ones in their places. When a culture can redefine anything, then nothing means anything. This…
For the past ten years or more, I’ve often referred to myself as a Recovering Fundamentalist. I’ve gone through a process of unlearning many things that I was taught growing up in a completely fundamentalist environment: Christian school, Christian church, Christian college. I don’t necessarily regret this upbringing, but it does come with some unfortunate…
In a nation, take that back, in a world saturated with writers, authors, bloggers, why would I even try to work on my writing? Who cares that I was editor of so many magazines, back in the day, when uttering the words magazine was still lucrative and fancy? Who cares of the many famous faces…
Last week my best friend’s daughter passed her driver’s license test and within minutes I got a text from my BFF saying, “I stood in the parking lot at the DMV and sobbed like a baby. This is a very big parent moment.” And, as every good best friend does, I sobbed right alongside her.…
It’s no secret that news of sexual assault and harassment is running rampant in today’s society. It seems that whenever you open social media or watch the news, there’s another report of shocking allegations, and it seems that this is only the tip of the iceberg. As a woman and a Christian, I watched in…
