airports are like no other place. everyone is on their way to something. they haven’t arrived, they haven’t departed. it can be an endless layover or a sprint to the gate. the destination can be a delight or a dread. and at any given time, an airport holds the most random collection of people. every [...]

how do you answer this question? 1. i’m rebecca, the middle child of my parents, married for 32 years. i have an older brother and younger sister. my husband, bryan, and i have been married for 4 1/2 years. we’re both 26. [what have you been named and what generation are you a part of? [...]

so much of the Christian life involves submission. submission is something we’ve talked about in our married couples bible study, mainly in the context that wives are to submit to their husbands (ephesians 5:22). i cringe when i hear that, and i’m sure most of our society does too. we think it means that women [...]

unfortunately i am a sucker for top 40 music, which means i subject myself to droning beats and, the majority of the time, awful lyrics. case in point: #4 song title on itunes? ‘sexy and i know it.’ bruno mars has a song (‘it will rain,’ #8 if you must know) where he sings, ‘there’s [...]

this past weekend took me to two new cities: san francisco and phoenix. that’s not entirely true – i spent eight hours in sf for work in 2009, on california ave on the 32nd floor. on new year’s eve, i saw my sister in law and drank some bubbly. on new year’s day it was [...]