Why Reading About St. Peter Makes Me Think About Gays in Church

Recently several people have asked me how I think Christians should respond to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered (GLBT) people coming to services in the church. My pastor asked. One of the moms in my Bible study struggles for wisdom to know how to respond to her son, who has come out as gay. Another Christian [...]

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The Chaos and Creativity of Homeschooling

This afternoon I ran across an old letter to my son Erik in my computer, written over a dozen years ago. Reading it reminded me how I wound up writing an article later based on that correspondence. Today I’d like to reprint the article to encourage any overwhelmed homeschool parents out there. Here it is:
Home schooling our children was such [...]

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Why I Attend a Church Where I Feel Uncomfortable

This week I decided why the women in my church kiss the air instead of each other when they greet.
I attend Alfa y Omega, a Spanish language church in nearby Anthony, Texas, a small, working class town of 5-6,000 people, but growing. Rents are cheap. A lot of recent immigrants, mostly from Mexico and Central [...]

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A Doorway Called Trouble

My friend Ruth Tsai told me recently that when her 82-year-old American mother came to the U.S. from mainland China in the 1970s after living in China for more than 40 years, it took her mother a while to learn to drop her China habits. She was so accustomed to living in an anti-Christian terrorist [...]

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Our Squirrel Saga

Last summer I was looking out the window of my office and noticed a squirrel sometimes disappearing into the storage side of the garage. (My husband Dennis remodeled our detached garage into 2/3s office space for himself and 1/3 storage. We covered most of the large garage door opening with plywood and put in an [...]

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Chinese Translation: Faith Journey

A day to celebrate! Monday I received a few copies of my new book translated into Chinese. The English language title is Laura’s Children: the Hidden Story of a Chinese Orphanage. The Chinese title is Faith Journey: Laura Richards and the Orphans of Canaan Home in China. It’s ironic that the Chinese translation wound up [...]

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Laundry tip

 
Some of you may have been wondering what would happen if a piece of wrapped chocolate somehow got into a load of your white washing. Well, now I can tell you. The chocolate doesn’t do much damage in the wash, but when it goes into the dryer with the wet clothes, it melts into the [...]

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Bladder Moments

I was telling my hairdresser today about our visit with our granddaughters. “You can tell that Tweety (age 4) has two scientists for parents,” I told her. “I was taking the two little girls to the back of the property to sit in Great-Grandma’s glider, and I told Tweety we had to slow up for [...]

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