Articles
What is Grief?
Talking about a familiar topic like grief, it is easy to read this on autopilot. “Yup, I know what grief is.” But stick with me, I think you’ll be ...
When Grief is Stirred and Re-Stirred … and Re-Stirred …
Welcome to our second “Grief Week.” If you missed the first, you can read the posts here and here. COVID-19 has come with so much loss and change; ...
The link between malaria and cancer | Immunopaedia
Researchers have found that the damage to DNA caused by the malaria parasite in cells increases the risk of those cells turning into cancerous cell ...
World Life Expectancy
World life expectancy has one of the largest global health and life expectancy databases in the world. Explore it thru thousands of pages of Maps, ...
Missionary Marriage Issues - Missionary Care
17 articles about marriage. Can be downloaded as ebook.
By: Ron and Bonnie Koteskey
Sex and the Married Missionary
We don’t talk about sex very much. Sure, we might joke about it (the first working title for this article was The Missionary Position), but we don’ ...
Me, Myself, and I: Staying Grounded While Single and Living Abroad
One of the best things about living overseas single is also one of the hardest things.Most of my writing is directed toward married women with kids ...
Deadly Emotions
Did you know that negative emotions can adversely affect your health? Depression, anger, guilt, condemnation, low self-esteem-these are only a few ...
Solo Zone: Whither the Single Male Missionary?
David Brainerd was one. So was Henry Martyn. And James Gilmour spent most of his career as one. Single men serving as cross-cultural miss ...
How to Cope with Ambiguous Loss: Closing our Bookstore
Every culture has traditions and rituals when someone dies, such as funerals, memorials, and gravestones. In a sense, we have a structure on how to ...
We Were Women Comforted by Shared Pain
I never imagined my fibromyalgia would help me serve refugees. But chronic pain is something we both understand.