Maybe you’ve heard the aphorism that your zip code determines your destiny. It’s the idea that the location where you are born, grow up, and go to school influences your life prospects–it affects your quality of ...

There is a myth preventing tens of millions of children and families from thriving.

The myth is this: children in orphanages don’t have parents. Many have accepted this myth as fact and, as a result, jump to support orphanages ...

On World Refugee Day, we pause to think about what it means to be a refugee. For those of us who care for refugees each day, like we do at Medical Teams, it is a day to recognize the resilience of the now 100 million men, women and ...

The hairnet felt both humbling and unifying – because everyone without exception had to wear one for the next two hours.

We stood at a long table after washing our hands, and became an assembly line carefully scooping powdered ...

“Disillusionment is the loss of a lie that we have believed.” —Peter Greer, HOPE International

Most people who work in humanitarian and helping professions end up in a familiar cycle: idealism leads to disillusionment ...

When Pastor Ulysses began church planting, he never imagined that his biggest challenge would be finding space for his people to meet.

From taekwondo studios to school gymnasiums, Pastor Ulysses’s Renewal Church has explored ...

Churches in California and Iowa. A supermarket in New York. An elementary school in Texas. A hospital in Oklahoma. A funeral service in Wisconsin.

Mass shootings have become so quotidian we are at risk of presuming this is simply normal ...

How should the church love her community during times of crisis?

This was the question our church in Austin wrestled with last year when Texas experienced a devastating winter storm that left more than 4 million people without power, ...