What do you do when you can’t think of anything to write? You turn it over to the folks who do the reading every week! This week’s discussion focuses on standing up for our beliefs. Feel free to join in the discussion in the comments section!

“He just gave up all of the material things that we think we have to have. You know, I don’t know how we gauge happiness. What’s happy for you might not be happy for me. I never heard him complain.” – Nurse Rita Belle, speaking about Richard Walters, a homeless man who left $4 million  Read more »

Moving house got editor Lauren Nelson thinking about the piles and piles of stuff we own, and all the energy it takes to own it. Sounds like it’s time for simplification!

It was a considerable honor that our small team of four young women was allowed into the nation of Myanmar (also called Burma.) This closed country has been ruled by an authoritarian military regime known as the Tatmadaw for nearly 50 years. The regime suppresses all expression of opposition to its rule. God has been  Read more »

Watch this video of Peggy Callahan, the co-founder and executive producer of Free the Slaves, as she talks about gathering photos and stories about modern day slavery, and why former slaves risk their personal safety and comfort to talk about their experiences.

This is the second story in a series about Pattaya, Thailand. Betsi Clark travelled to Thailand with Lauren Nelson, Phil Porter and Sarah Paulk, and found much more than she bargained for on the sometimes scintillating, sometimes sad, always interesting streets of Pattaya.