Everyday Faith and Depression
If could relieve my depression with a little pill, I would gladly swallow it. I have battled depression for as long as I can remember but it seemed to get worse when I started raising a family. During...
View ArticleSpend a Little, Give a Lot
For $50 or less you can help to change someone’s life. These organizations, all launched by women who each took one step into Africa that led to leaving a lasting footprint, can help: $50: Enough yarn...
View ArticleIf Seinfeld was a Buddhist: A Book About Nothing
I spend so much energy searching for something more in life that I found it refreshing to find someone focusing on the power of nothing. Journalist Joan Konner, conceived and edited a wonderful...
View ArticleA Tribute to the Real Santa
Secret Santa Larry Stewert Sometimes, I love being a reporter. Like when I had the great pleasure of interviewing the Secret Santa of Kansas City, Larry Stewart, who gave away more than $1.3 million...
View ArticleHaba Na Haba
Artists in Tanzania When Beth Peterson visited Tanzania in 2001, her heart went out to the shocking number of AIDS orphans living in the streets. “These young people had no jobs, education, or hope,”...
View ArticleHaiti: Give a Little, Help a Lot
Just a quick post with three very worthy charities helping in Haiti: Yele Haiti Doctors Without Borders Global Medical Relief Fund Tweet This Post
View ArticleIn Honor of Living a Fearless Life
Pennye with daughters Etta and Yamini Pennye Nixon-West founded Etta Projects, an organization to help a rural town in Bolivia, in 2003 to honor the life of her daughter Etta, who died in a tragic...
View ArticleAn email from a relief worker in Haiti
A friend of mine is considering going to Haiti to provide medical assistance. Here’s an email she received with advice on what to pack from a relief worker there. I found it very powerful: The people...
View ArticleThe Possibility of Everything
Hope Edeman’s memoir, “The Possibility of Everything,” is about finding faith in things you can’t see or understand in order to rid her three-year-old daughter of a disruptive imaginary friend. Here’s...
View ArticleTaking a break from My Faith Project
It’s been five months since I started this blog and it’s time to sit back, be quiet, and and re-evaluate. Thanks to all of you who have become my companions on this journey. I’ll be back when I figure...
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