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Attitudes toward multiracial Americans evolving

Posted in Articles, Biracial Children, Culture/Race Relations, tagged on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »

Article in USA Today from June, 2008

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Hannah’s Lunchbox, a new American dream

Posted in Articles, Social Justice, tagged on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »

Check out this remarkable story about a family who sold their home to help alleviate global poverty.  Here is their website.

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Teach a Man to Fish?

Posted in Articles, Globalization, Social Justice on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »

Blogger Steve Kimes questions the traditional interpretation of the proverb, “Teach a man to fish…”  Very interesting article!

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Racism Sucks

Posted in Articles, Cross-Cultural Church, Culture/Race Relations, Find a local church, Mosaic, tagged , on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Article by Eugene Cho at Beauty and Depravity blog.  Cho is the pastor of Quest Church, an urban, multicultural, multigenerational church in Seattle.

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“Overcoming Jetlag” by Pakaboo Travels

Posted in Articles, Travel, tagged on June 16, 2008 | No Comments »

Has some great recommendations for those heading out on a tourist trip with kids.

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Who is Affected by your Intercultural Relationship?

Posted in Articles, Marriage, tagged on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Excellent article by blogger GoriGirl.

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From Tree Forts to Castles; one MK’s Transition Experience

Posted in Articles, Missionary Kids, tagged , , on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

by Kathleen Johnson
One brisk October evening in 2005, my 12 year old son and I made a visit to our soon-to-be home in the Netherlands. As is the norm in Holland, our rental house had been stripped bare, leaving behind only dingy walls, cold cement floors and bare windows. Loose wires hung from the ceilings [...]

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Travelling with Small Children: Staying Sane along the Way

Posted in Articles, Travel, tagged , , on April 18, 2008 | 5 Comments »

“Yay!!! We did it!” my daughter, Maia, cheered with Dora-like enthusiasm as our plane bumped onto the ground, “We made it to Sri Lanka!”. My husband and I grinned at each other, bleary-eyed. We had been on an airplane for over 20 hours with two children under three and survived. We shared a subtle [...]

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Chasing the Wind: The Fallacy of the American Dream vs. ‘The Good Life’

Posted in African, Articles, Culture/Race Relations, tagged on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »

A deep bass beat rippled through the darkness of the dance club. Strobe lights flashed outlines of bodies, some clinging, some flailing, some just sitting and staring. A newly arrived English teacher to Burkina Faso, West Africa, this wasn’t exactly the way I had anticipated learning about a new culture. However, my [...]

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Intercultural Marriage: a Model of Reconciliation for the Church

Posted in Articles, Cross-Cultural Church, Marriage, tagged on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

“Many waters cannot quench love,” I pondered Solomon’s words sitting on a dusty porch in West Africa, the afternoon downpour pounding on the tin roof over my head. “But they certainly do a good job trying to drown it.”
My boyfriend, [...]

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