Peace starts in my own heart. Sometimes I lose peace, and I just can’t move on until I get it back again. Being a mother of four, one of the quickest ways for me to lose my peace is for some... Read more

God has been teaching me a hard lesson in peacemaking. It’s hard because it demands I face up to the seeds of war and hatred deep in my own spirit. As with most of us humans, the difficult p... Read more

Talking Feet Beautiful feet hiking up a steep mountain trail is the unlikely but striking image that Isaiah offers. The passage from Isaiah 52, verses 7 through 12, gives insight on how we a... Read more

Quaker Ninjas Last week I watched my 10-year-old grandson play something called “Spin Jet-Su.” Seven evil-looking Lego action figures, armed with swords or spears, were mounted on small roun... Read more

I was six years old, and our family was living in a low-cost housing development in central California—a group of duplexes arranged in a circle around a grassy area where the kids played. I... Read more

I’ve long found the name, La Paz, to be more ironic than descriptive. We’ve just spent 16 days in this beautiful highland city, but it would be an understatement to simply say it was not a p... Read more