Go to any shopping mall, and inexpensive clothes are abundant — $5 T-shirts, $20 skinny jeans, $10 sandals. But as we fill our closets, who really pays the price? Like most young mums Bianca Z enjoys fashion and finding a bargain. Unlike most of us however, this mother of two has seen first hand the hidden cost of those cheap clothes for the women in the developing world, who make them. In 2008 she and …
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven” Ecclesiastes 3:1 24 years ago I married the man of my dreams. He was in the military and, at the time we embarked on our life together, I hadn’t given too much thought to what life, as a military wife, would entail. I soon realized that the one thing that was certain was change. Each new military posting meant not just …
It’s unusual for a nun to compete in Ironman Triathlons; particularly when that nun is 84 years old. But Sister Madonna Buder is anything but conventional. She’s the oldest woman to ever finish an Ironman Triathlon at age 82, and last year was inducted into the USA Triathlon Hall of Fame. An Ironman Triathlon consists of a 3.86 km/2.4 mile swim, a 180.25 km/112 mile bike ride, and a full marathon (42.2 km/26.2 mile) run …
Several years ago I lost my religion. Not like ‘Oops, where did it go? Is it under the lounge?’ Rather I decided to loosen my grip on everything except the few things that I thought to be most true and which I had experienced for certain. It started almost ten years ago. I had believed a fairly common version of the Protestant Christian faith since around the age of nine, with a touch of niggling …
Elisabeth Elliot 1926 – 2015 I first heard Elisabeth Elliot speak when I was 15 years old. I was captivated by her story of living in the jungles of Ecuador amongst a tribe of Auca Indians who only months earlier had killed her husband Jim Elliot and four other missionaries. Rather than returning home to the USA she and her 10-month-old daughter remained in the jungle, living out the gospel of grace and forgiveness that …
