Hindsight is 20/20 By Shiloh Gideon-Sjöström It’s that time of year when we mentally gear up to answer questions along these lines: What are you looking forward to this year? What do you hope for in this next decade? What does your 5-year plan look like? We are taught from...
Don’t Miss the Moment by Adriel Anderson Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him...
What Makes Prayer Powerful by Elle Stahlhut Roetzel What does powerful prayer look like? Would you feel the earth shake? Would your enemies fall to the ground? Would a booming voice come out of heaven saying, “I have heard you. Now step aside as I perform everything that you just...
Powerful prayer is not about you and what you are able to do; it’s about the power that lives inside of you.
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Feminine Hygiene Training in Nepal by Rachel Skoog Christmastime 2017, I sat on the couch, drinking a large mug of steaming chai tea, chatting with my friend Hannah. Hannah is from Nepal and grew up in a hostel where she and hundreds of other young girls received education, food, and...
Activate Hope through Goal Setting by Adriel Anderson Have you ever considered how the placebo effect points to tangible consequences of hope? When the simple belief that you’ve received effective treatment (when you haven’t!) leads to actual improvement, it’s clear that hope changes things. Researchers have even found that high-hope...
Shedding the Shackles of Unconscious Bias by Shiloh Gideon-Sjostrom There was a dramatic moment in the college class I was teaching. We had been discussing bias, racism, and ethnocentrism when a student stood up and gave the rest of us his opinion on the matter. “Why do we need to...
By Jodie May I quit Facebook, and I am much happier. Sure, social media can be exciting. But it can also create poor habits and grow into your source of dopamine, the “feel-good hormone.” It can become your outlet to find joy, and eventually, it corrupts your idea of what...
