Diana Trautwein

Mary Helwig – Iditarod March 5

Although Covenanter Mary Helwig lost her home and nearly everything she owned in Alaska’s devastating Sockeye Fire last June […]

A Lament for South Sudan

Agony! Bodies hacked, shot, mutilated. Cries of mothers, fathers, children, and babies are heard […]

A Call from Ecuador

My brother was almost killed at the end of 2012. The way I heard the story, he laughed in the face of a man to whom he owed twenty dollars. […]

Reclaiming Lament

The book of Lamentations seems to be one of the most obscure, often considered depressing […]

Second City Sabbatical

Christians often say that God has a “wonderful plan” for our lives. I don’t believe that’s true. […]

Review: A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War

In spite of the title’s reference to Lewis’s Narnia chronicles, this is not a children’s book. Rather, it is the story of how J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis […]

Review: The Art of Prayer

Prayer has been a struggle for me throughout my life. I committed my life to Christ as a teen in a small Baptist church […]

My Iranıan Awakening

A visit to my father’s homeland left me feeling less American but more fully human. […]