by Amanda Bornfree On a Sunday evening, my one-month-old baby girl starts making hunger cues with her soft little heart-shaped lips. She pushes them out as she sits in a bouncer at the door of our bathroom. I’m in the bathroom with a blob of hair conditioner in my wet hands, telling my six-year-old […]
Young women are sharing community, maybe dinner and discussing the faith-based topics that appear in every issue of Café. Each issue of Café features two articles with discussion questions and a closing prayer. You can download and print out the October 2016 issue, or follow along from the website if you have an Internet connection. […]
Like Saul, we sometimes need a disruption in our journey in order to receive God’s call. We may be so comfortable on our current journey that we can’t see that God is calling us to something different. Listen to the podcast here and on iTunes. You can read the article by Tiffany C. Chaney. […]
by Tiffany C. Chaney Like most of us these days, I can say that my career path hasn’t been a straight line. I’ve moved across state lines for work five times – twice even across the country! Looking back at all these twists and turns in my professional journey, I can see now […]
by Tiffany C. Chaney In Acts 9:1-20, Jesus tells both Saul and Ananias to get up and go, sending both toward a divine connection. When Jesus encounters Saul on the road to Damascus where he sought to persecute Christ’s followers, it changes his life. A divine voice tells Saul that in persecuting the believers, he […]
Following Jesus’ command to love one another can be hard. What if love was an action and not an emotion? One pastor offers her wisdom about the labor of love. Listen to the podcast here and on iTunes. You can read the article by Meghan Johnston Aelabouni. Also in this issue, “Love and addiction” […]
Young women are sharing community, maybe dinner and discussing the faith-based topics that appear in every issue of Café. Each issue of Café features two articles with discussion questions and a closing prayer. You can download and print out the September 2016 issue, or follow along from the website if you have an Internet connection. […]
by Karen Craigo It’s conventional wisdom that men marry a version of their mothers. Like most conventional wisdom, this piece is probably partially true about half the time. Still, the notion lodges in our brain and keeps us looking sidelong at our spouse’s parents, trying to spot the resemblance. I’ve been blessed […]
by Meghan Johnston Aelabouni A year into my first call as a youth and family pastor, a man named “Fred” started volunteering with our high school youth group. Fred was exuberant and charismatic. He showed up early, stayed late to clean up, and took vacation time to help lead the mission trip. Best of all, […]
A pastor shares her wisdom about carrying around emotional and spiritual baggage. Listen to the podcast here and on iTunes. You can read the article by Angela T. Khabeb. Also in this issue, you can read “The baggage we carry” written by Angela T. Khabeb. You can also download this entire issue and answer […]