Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Vicarious trauma. These words are often used to describe those in helping professions whose experiences weary them to the point of giving up. However, these terms further stigmatize those attempting to ...
Turmoil continues to broil in Haiti, with gangs growing increasingly powerful. In addition to recently kidnapping 17 missionaries (and demanding a $1 million ransom for each), gangs also control fuel supplies, preventing internet ...
Volunteering to support a refugee or refugee family at times can be challenging or even difficult. However, did you volunteer because you knew it was going to be easy? Did you volunteer because your primary reason was to make you ...
I never used to talk about why I became a climate scientist. Getting personal about our work is something we scientists are trained not to do. Leaving our deeper motivations at the door of the lab serves us well as we analyze data ...
Media houses across the globe have mastered the art of sensationalizing issues, stirring up panic and anxiety while sidelining critical needs of nations.
One nation that has received little media attention and is in need of prayer ...
My food distribution job, leading 28 team members and hundreds of women volunteers in South Sudan’s isolated and most perilous locations, is both a blessing and a huge risk, involving emergency helicopter rides, cruising crocodile-infested ...
Unprecedented. New normal. Post-pandemic world.
Those are just a few of the words that have been swirling around after COVID-19 upended our collective lives. The pandemic left so many of us reeling from job losses to losing loved ones, ...
Saturday was beautiful weather and my family went for what was intended to be an 8km bike ride. My 8 and 10-year-old were excited, but a bit nervous since they have never gone that far.
Around the fourth kilometre of the trail, 10-year-old ...
When I was pregnant with my oldest son Jordan, every book I read urged mothers to nurse, and many well-meaning ladies at my church asked, “You’re going to breastfeed, right?” When Jordan wouldn’t latch on and ...
Adapted from Madness & Grace: A Practical Guide for Pastoral Care and Serious Mental Illness, published by Templeton Press.
Since it’s very beginning, the Church has been involved in social justice movements to serve and ...
