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When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad
“Jesus looked up in the tree and said, ‘Zacchaeus, you come down . . . and I’ll give you a Snicker bar.'” -ME: circa 1976 Mary Musgrave love ...
7 Reasons You Need to Build Your Grieving Muscles
Those of you who lift weights will be familiar with “lower body” and “upper body” days. The thinking is that by targeting the lower body one day, y ...
What do I do with re-stirring grief?
On Tuesday, we discussed cumulative and anticipatory grief, both in general, and in our current climate of COVID-19. I noted that the goal of deali ...
World Life Expectancy
World life expectancy has one of the largest global health and life expectancy databases in the world. Explore it thru thousands of pages of Maps, ...
Solo Zone: Whither the Single Male Missionary?
David Brainerd was one. So was Henry Martyn. And James Gilmour spent most of his career as one. Single men serving as cross-cultural miss ...
Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
One of the best things about living overseas single is also one of the hardest things.Most of my writing is directed toward married women with kids ...
The link between malaria and cancer | Immunopaedia
Researchers have found that the damage to DNA caused by the malaria parasite in cells increases the risk of those cells turning into cancerous cell ...
Missionary Marriage Issues - Missionary Care
17 articles about marriage. Can be downloaded as ebook.
By: Ron and Bonnie Koteskey
Sex and the Married Missionary
We don’t talk about sex very much. Sure, we might joke about it (the first working title for this article was The Missionary Position), but we don’ ...
How to Cope with Ambiguous Loss: Closing our Bookstore
Every culture has traditions and rituals when someone dies, such as funerals, memorials, and gravestones. In a sense, we have a structure on how to ...
To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
In the past century, many Americans have lost the ability to sit in a way that doesn't strain their backs. Specialists say we could take a lesson f ...
FAITH-BASED RESOURCES FOR CHRONIC PAIN, DISABILITY, DEPRESSION AND OTHER FORMS OF SUFFERING
As you peruse the following list of books and websites/blogs, think of your own needs, as well as the needs of loved ones and people in your sphere ...