Stay-at-home moms and dads may find themselves going days without adult conversations. Parents who work outside the home can feel like they ebb and flow between the deeply personal and solely professional, still finding their need for companionable connection unmet. Whether you’re laying on the living room rug as your toddlers run circles and baby climbs over your torso, or you’re squeezing the last minutes out of a day at the office before preschool pickup, your need for friendship and community is real and honorable. Understanding yourself as part of a larger story, and seeing the ways that culture has shifted to bring about greater isolation, may not solve all of your problems, but it can help you feel less alone in your aloneness. We invite you to spend a moment with a resource or two CT has published this week on the importance of seeing ourselves as part of a broader story—whether throughout history, in our local communities, and even within our own families: Christian Marriage Demands that We Study Our Desires, Not Hide Them ‘Finding Home’ with Rich Pérez Where the Great Commission Meets Deportation Unmuting Women’s Voices Fannie Lou Hamer’s Fight for First-Class Citizenship Rizpah’s Long Lament Ended a Famine—and You May Have Never Heard of It
Podcast of the Week
Where Ya From? ‘Finding Home’ with Rich Pérez We can learn a lot about ourselves even through other people’s experiences. Rich Pérez shares his “layers” and what makes him, him.
Unmuting Women’s Voices Author and podcast host Kat Armas is amplifying the stories of women on the margins and helping the church recognize their value.
Where the Great Commission Meets Deportation For millions of immigrants, removal from the United States is the heartbreaking end of a dream. For these two, it was also the birth of a ministry.
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