This essay originally appeared on A Life Overseas. My kids and I love reading missionary stories. You know the kind. There are witchdoctors. There are dreams and visions. And there are divine appointments with so many moving parts you can…
This article originally appeared on A Life Overseas. An Introvert Moves to India Shortly before we launched as missionaries to India, I was gifted a book. The title was something like Home at Last. This book disturbed me. In it, the…
This post originally appeared on A Life Overseas. God created me with a strong aesthetic sense. That’s probably why the book We Help Mommy appeals to me. This idyllic Little Golden Book features illustrations by Eloise Wilkin, who was so…
My husband Joshua has the annoying habit of believing I am capable and strong, like some kind of Wonder Woman, except with a super-modest, incarnational wardrobe instead of a metal corset. He is always encouraging me and pep-talking me and…
I cut more than 10,000 words from my first draft of Hidden Song of the Himalayas. One guiding principle for trimming was this: never let the reader get bored. As one beta reader so insightfully asked: “When are you gonna get…
Being constantly confronted with poverty is difficult, especially if there is a system in place to keep people in poverty. If you’ve ever seen the movie Slumdog Millionaire you will know that there are groups in India who create and traffic beggars….
Five years ago, I began a task I wasn’t sure I could finish. I had written articles and essays, but the story I had just lived through demanded more than a blog post. It needed to live in book form….
Last week, I visited my little sister, who just had a baby. She named the baby Abigail! …and even though that’s my pen name, and my sister had technically forgotten about it, I’m telling everyone the baby was subconsciously named…
(Don’t you love all the car tracks in the above ultra-authentic camel photo I didn’t take?) I once shared the gospel with a group of burly Arab camel tour guides whose camel bit me on the leg. (It’s okay. You…
How can we cultivate the headspace and heartspace to share our faith in a world where there so much is against us? Popular opinion, our own flaws, entire governments… not necessarily in that order… I don’t have answers. Mainly I…