A star is born
by Jennifer Miles I have been enthralled by the performing arts for longer than my memory can reach into my past. As a toddler, I dressed-up in my mother’s “old-fashioned” clothes, reveling in the...
View ArticleThe fight against ugliness
by Abigail Westbrookby Abigail Westbrook The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness, just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have...
View ArticleYour deep gladness, His great purpose
by Danielle Carey My friend Sarah, a Canadian by birth, lives at the top end of Australia, thousands of kilometres away from me. Recently she had a layover between Canada and the Northern Territory and...
View ArticleA Peek Into Your Passion with a Purpose (link-up)
by Gretchen Louise At the Championship Cups awards ceremony in 1925, Eric Liddell (quoted in God’s Joyful Runner) said, “My motto in life has ever been, ‘If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing...
View Articlecircle time–and the launch of March of Books 2013!
by Everly PleasantDo you remember circle time? Your teacher, or mom, or Sunday School teacher would gather you and your peers into a little group and, as eyes widened and voices hushed (okay, not so...
View ArticleOn Writing from the Heart
by Kindred Graceby Nicole Unice The summer that I wrote my first book, I got a tattoo on the inside of my wrist. I didn’t get it to be a cool “rebel” Christian. I got it because it was my attempt at...
View ArticleCalled to Be Ambassadors of Beauty
by Trina HoldenIs the pursuit of beauty worth of our time? I asked myself this question awhile back because I was honestly wondering if creating and celebrating beauty was a valid thing to add to the...
View ArticleFaith Forgotten and Borders Crossed
by Rachelle“Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” -Martin Luther I forgot. I forgot the definition of that...
View ArticleSoapy Idolatry
by Jessica TelianIf you ever come to visit us, and use our bathroom, you’ll notice that we have two different soap dispensers next to the sink. One contains Dr. Bronner’s lavender liquid soap, and the...
View Articlelive kindly
by Everly Pleasant (Everly and her sister enjoying some Green&Black’s chocolate while wearing their Punjammies and reading The Better World Shopping Guide!) There are many questions we must ask...
View ArticleConcerning Spiritual Gifts…
(This post may contain affiliate links. Your clicks and purchases help support Kindred Grace.) by Jessiqua Wittman“Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant…” (1st...
View Article“Sorry, I Can’t. That’s Not My Spiritual Gift.”
(This post may contain affiliate links. Your clicks and purchases help support Kindred Grace.) by Guest Authorby Teri Lynne Underwood It seems every few years Christendom goes abuzz with spiritual gift...
View ArticleHow to Spot Your Children’s Spiritual Gifts
(This post may contain affiliate links. Your clicks and purchases help support Kindred Grace.) by Guest Authorby Rebecca Miller Over a decade ago, I worked with a spiritual gifts ministry in my...
View ArticleAre You Shaped To Be a Faith Builder?
(This post may contain affiliate links. Your clicks and purchases help support Kindred Grace.) by Guest Authorby Christy Fitzwater When my first child was born someone gave me a baby gift that stayed...
View ArticleThe Night A Dream Came True
by Rachelle The night the dream-come-true news slipped into my life, I was oblivious. Looking back, I wonder at how Jesus must have chuckled, because I was on the recumbent bike watching television at...
View ArticleDiversity in Children’s Books: A Personal Passion
I’m not a mom and I don’t know if I ever will be, but I cannot remember a time before I stepped (or toddled) into my role of big sister. My younger siblings are two, three, six, ten, eleven and twelve...
View ArticleThe Life of a Dabbler
There is an old saying, “A jack of all trades is a master of none,” oft quoted to describe someone who can do many things but none too well. Welcome to my life. I’ve always been a dabbler. I dabble in...
View ArticleHow to Find Your Vocation
Your vocation: what is it? It isn’t exactly the same as your career or job, says Jeff Goins, though it may include them. Its scope is life-long: it is the theme you will return to again and again,...
View ArticleThe Circle of Homemaking
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” It’s a question most children hear at some point during their growing-up years. My plan wasn’t much, by some standards. I just wanted to be a wife, a...
View ArticleBearing Fruit In Season
I am an architect, but I’m not. I am a missionary, but I’m not. Sound confusing? Maybe the confusion subsides when we embrace a view of vocation as separate from that of career — as something that far...
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