

Elise Heerde
Strengthened in the Shaking
Ever felt like everything in your world was shaking? Like it was all about to come crashing down? The struggles seem never ending and the...


Ella Hickey
Grief is complicated
This is what I have come to know in the core of my being, that grief is complex, and knotty, and has many intricate layers. It has no...


Elise Heerde
The War Is Won But The Battle Continues
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it” Margaret Thatcher Have you ever felt like you were facing a losing battle? It...


Tamie Davis
More Than You Can Handle
We all know those times when someone says something nicely to hide a harsher meaning, like when someone says, “That’s a very brave...


Hannah Craven
My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me? - A Good Friday lament
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” As he hung on the cross close to death, the gospels tells us that Jesus spoke these words. He...


Jean Thompson
A Time to Weep
Airliner crashes, weather-related disasters, drought and flooding on an unprecedented scale, political turmoil, prolonged and bloody...


Elise Heerde
Through the Valley
I am not really a hiking kind of girl but once a year my family goes to the mountains for a long weekend. Where we stay is surrounded by...


Fiona Isaacs & Isobel Knight
Can You Imagine That? Returning to Mary Poppins.
I need Mary Poppins in my life. Not because she has the magical ability to clean her house by clicking her fingers. Not even because she...


Moyra Dale
TGI 60 or Sixty with Terminal Cancer – what’s to be thankful for?!
TGI Friday (Thank God it’s Friday) is an American restaurant chain operating around the world. A little while ago I had a Thank God I’m...


Moyra Dale
God and True Motherhood
Asma Barlas suggests (in implicit contrast with Christianity) that Islam is not a theological patriarchy, because the Qur’an rejects...