Fifty-five years ago today, East Germany began constructing the Berlin Wall in order to stop the flood of citizens attempting enter to democratic West Germany. A few months ago, I sat in theaters watching Bridge of Spies, set in the thick of the Cold War.…
You met at an InterVarsity meeting, you told me. You saw her across the room and asked a friend who she was. “Her name’s Becky—and she has a boyfriend.” But when the boy left the picture months later, you became friends. You offered to give…
I remember how blue the sky was in January 2010 when we climbed to the top of Herodium, a fortress built by Herod the Great in Israel, not too far outside Bethlehem. It was the clear blue sky of a desert day in spring—not the…
My senior year of college, a couple of my friends and I were invited to join a control group for a study one of the master’s students was doing for her thesis. Her topic was how the “ring by spring” culture at small colleges can…
This story was published in the Nov. 2015 issue of Today’s Christian Living magazine and is re-published here with permission. “We tend to think abortion has a face – maybe it’s a poverty stricken girl, or this or that,” Lori Driggs said. “But abortion doesn’t…
