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The rain sluiced off the roof and over the gutter in a solid sheet, battering through the leaves of the rubber trees, and a fine mist blew through the screen, cooling me briefly from the humid heat. Outside, water ran down the slope in front of the house and splashed over the tree roots. I'd arrived in Indonesia a stranger and a foreigner not long ago, but I was quickly growing to love this land, and struggling to find my place in it. There was so much need, both physical and spiritual...I watched the storm and pondered... From that moment my life unfolded into paths I never dreamed were...

Diversity Celebration is a warm and engaging look at all the different ways of being a child. Their unique variety of abilities, ways of communicating, thinking and relating, whether tall or short, black, brown or white, blue or green or brown eyes, curly or straight, black or blonde hair, whether older or younger, we are all much more alike than different, and we all enrich one another's worlds. Now that's something to celebrate A good first book to look at and read with toddlers and preschoolers, and for older children to read alone, as a foundation for teaching friendship skills, empathy...

Calvin Paul was my son for 11 of his brief 13 years-technically, less than that, because although he was placed with me when he was two, his adoption wasn't finalized until shortly before his sixth birthday. But in my heart, I feel like there was never a time when he was not my child. He was a game changer, he was a hero, he was a lover, and I thank God I was blessed with being his mom.

"Christians, love like Jesus According to the gay community, we're mostly a far cry from that. And why should we care? Because Jesus, whom we claim to follow, told us that loving God and loving our neighbors, in all their diversity, is what He wants us to do. Something is wrong when 'following scripture' leads us to reject the people next door instead of loving them. It's time we re-examine what the Bible says, and look again at how we, as individuals and as the church, relate to LGBT persons. There is an epidemic of suicides going on right now that the church has yet to address. Every day,...