(4 min read) Did you know that May is Haitian Heritage Month? Did you also know that the FIRST Haitian Heritage Month was celebrated here in Boston back in 1998? Tele Kreyol, a local Haitian Access Television program celebrated the whole month of May as an expansion of Haiti’s...
(7 min read) Hustle culture. Atomic Habits. Never give up. Rise and grind, sunshine. Slay. Spend a few minutes on social media or YouTube asking the algorithm how to “win at life,” and next thing you know you’ve spent hours scrolling through an endless stream of content from...
(4 min read) Your heart starts beating faster and faster. Your hands start getting clammy and sweaty. Your breathing seems to get ahead of you without you realizing it. Your thoughts are like a car racing in circles. You feel like you aren’t going to make it to your next...
(6 min read) Recently, I almost stopped my reading plan out of a mixture of boredom and frustration during the book of Exodus. In my mind the book of Exodus is a sweeping narrative of God liberating His people. The beautiful story in the movie “Prince of Egypt” comes to...
(5 min read) The space is mostly dark and the crowd is still, but there seems to be an energy coursing through the room anyways. On a stage, with everyone’s attention, someone shares their story of overcoming a difficult season in their life. The people clap and cheer at this testimony...
(4 min read) What if we considered the following idea: friendship is not only an art that Christians should excel at, but one we have woefully forgotten? Christians may still do an alright job of being friendly with those they agree with, but what about with people who share a different...
(5 min read) Christian prayer can be defined in so many ways that it makes the average person’s head spin. Prayer is sometimes “a conversation with God,” or a time of telling God about where you are, or it’s engaging in spiritual battle (as in, “prayer...
(6 min read) I presented my mom with a problem…some frustration I had at school. Something I knew she had an opinion on. My mom was a middle/high school English teacher for almost 40 years. Believe me…she had opinions about teen issues. But, in fairness, she also had reason. She...
(4 min read) Did you know that there are over 350,000 religious congregations in the United States? According to the Hartford Institute for Religious Research, of those 350,000 congregations, about 314,000 are Protestant Churches, while about 24,000 are Catholic Churches. To say that there are...
(6 min read) Sometimes, things go wrong. Terribly, irreparably wrong. It’s painful when that’s a friendship. Heartbreaking when it’s a romantic relationship. Devastating when it’s a marriage. But what about when something goes terribly, irreparably wrong with your...
