“Calcutta eats missionaries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,” the missionary from Chenai warned us. Huddled together in the dark basement of a ministry building in San Francisco, our team of 12 women and two men received our Calcutta briefing from a veteran of over 25 years in India. He told us of Koli, the goddess  Read more »

If a year ago you had told me — a semi-normal guy born and raised by missionary parents in the ways of the American evangelical — that I’d abandon my church of fifteen years, no longer be attending regular church services and entertaining Catholicism, well… I might have believed you, actually. That’s because last year, on Easter Sunday of all days, I became an atheist in the pew of my own church.

Millions of people pass through Howrah train station in Kolkota, India, but there is an invisible life that few travelers actually see. Around 200 orphaned children live at the train station, huffing glue to suppress their appetites and living a violent, tragic, almost animalistic lifestyle. Most of the kids have no idea how they even  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 »

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.

Carrie Guy traveled to Thailand hoping to meet the needs of the Karen people. What she found is that God is already working there, and we here in the US need the Karen people just as much as they need us.

This magazine idea has been a labor of love for me, a dream that was conceived in the basement of an English manor three years ago. It has taken approximately 60,000 miles of air travel, countless writes, rewrites, back tracks, explanations, edits and new ideas to make this magazine happen. I hope you are blessed and inspired by what you read and see here.

I was thinking today: As Americans, what are our intentions in regards to activism? In other words, are we just flirting with the idea of helping others because it is popular, or are do we truly care? What will it take to move from a point of ignorance to awareness to action, and make it stick as a lifestyle? And does it even matter, as long as good is done?