Ty Solomon Hilker Hitting the Ground Never Hurt So Bad I suppose it would not surprise those who know me well to find me jumping off...

“Our Father in heaven knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. He knew our inborn treachery, and for His own sake engaged to save...

In Pirates of the Caribbean, the Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth Swan is kidnapped by an unruly mob of pirates because they believe...

Angie Hilker She was a wet--nurse, a woman who did not have notoriety, prestige, or a recognizably high position in society. Her name was...

Kathy Gallagher It felt like the air had left the room. The significance of the moment, this hinge on which the rest of life would turn...

Angie Hilker How brave of a parent are you? Let's see how brave you think you are after reading about these mothers from around the...

Stacia Lowe They say, “It takes a village.” The origin of the phrase is said to have come from an ancient African proverb where they...

Katy Watson A Woman in the Desert (Genesis 16) She started out behind. Second class. A woman, a foreigner from Egypt. A slave, purchased...

Tanya Cotterell Scarcity. Aside from those runaway, imaginary scenes that play out in a mother’s mind—the ones that center around freak...

THE DAY I LOST MY HEAD One afternoon, after walking into the house with some groceries, I noticed that my four-year-old had something...

Stay: to continue in one place, to forbear to act, to rest, to be trustful. Years ago, I sat in a room of doctoral candidates as the...

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which...

Somewhere in the distance, I heard her beckoning, come home. I don’t have a distinct moment that I can recount, but if there was just one...

"My home is deep in the forest near the roots of the mountain." —The Two Towers I could feel the bleakness of dim shadows hovering over...

“Let me explain,” she said with her colorful charts spread out on the table. “Cognitively, your child is in the one percentile range. He...