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How God Helps Me Eat on $33 Per Week
Last year I grossed about $3,000 less than the Alaska poverty line and spent nearly three-fourths of what I did earn on rent for an apartment that’s close to the cheapest Anchorage offers. Car upkeep—vital to my freelance work as a writer and church pianist—took roughly another 20 percent of my income. You do the math. As the Porter’s Gate song “Daily Bread” goes, I’m “stretching pennies into dimes.” Ironically, I’m probably one of the wealthier people at my church.
The First Church Of America
map – A Travel Lifestyle Magazine has put together this special America 250 map and guide. Use it to create and enjoy your own custom travel to one or more communities in America where the Christian faith has a rich heritage and vibrant present day influence. This map will help you find the ‘first church’* in each of America’s 13 colonies and explore the rich and often complex history of how Christ was central to the formation of life in this nation.
Discover Your Place On Wild Ice
I was 8 and the very first place I ever went to skate on wild ice was – my back yard in Indianapolis, Indiana. Ok, is wasn’t totally “wild”. My dad put down a massive sheet of plastic and flooded the back yard. It was a cold winter so we got to skate for weeks – long enough for my sister and I to learn to skate – and grow to love it. But it was wild in that nuts, leaves and twigs would fall, freeze and pepper the once smooth surface and snow further made rough patches.
Ask God To Make Your Holiday Travels Generous AND Extravagant
Recurring annual holidays often come with both anticipation and dread. We look forward to the break from our routines and the rest from our work. These holidays are broadly recognized for the purpose and meaning they bring to our lives. They give us reason and opportunity to be with family and friends. But, holidays can also be busy, demanding and stressful on many levels. Your next holiday trip will likely not be all good but it certainly doesn’t have to be all bad.
Update To The Latest Version Of You
Imagine if every few weeks in 2026 you could download updates for your life. Bugs would be fixed. You’d have performance improvements and greater security over the “sin that so easily besets us”. Aaaand, you’d get awesome new features that aren’t just really cool, they were clearly designed for you from the very beginning. Now – let God expand your vision for your reality — the latest version of you.
Everywhere And Always
The beautiful Hofsóskirkja Church near a heated pool and Basalt Columns (65.89593° N, 19.40756° W) looks like it may be the only church in in Hofsos, Iceland. While links to tourist activities for the small town with a population of less than 200 are abundant, I can’t find any details about a congregation or the date and time when you could worship at the church. But, the photo above invites my mind to picture life both with and without fellowship.
Out Of Bounds - Exploring The Limitless Goodness Of God
Featured image is a composite of 2 photos from the National Park Service, both public domain: wooded location by Alyssa Mattei and rusty boundary sign by Hot Springs National Park Archives. Have you ever had someone tell you that you need to get out of your comfort zone?
When Putin's in Town, Alaska's Slavic Christians Keep Praying for Peace
As political leaders meet over the Ukraine war, Orthodox and Protestant congregations gather to ask God to orchestrate an end to the fighting. About ten miles from where Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage on Friday, a man speaking at New Chance Church didn't even have to mention the presidents-or their countries-as he prayed for the ongoing talks.
Singing Hymns to Scare The Bears
On the outskirts of Anchorage, a Southern Baptist retired science education professor captures creation on her cameras. Donna Gail Shaw is up a tree, her holstered .44 revolver sometimes grazing the bark as she adjusts a game camera and describes the time she almost got between a bear and its cub. "It was the biggest brown bear I'd ever seen in my life. And she kept coming toward me. And I thought, 'This is not good,' because I'm yelling and talking to her and she's ... coming toward me.
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs in a Spotify Age
There's an old joke about the evolution of music technology that goes something like, "How many times do I have to buy the White Album?" Perhaps the move to streaming-the subject of Liz Pelly's new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist -makes that question moot. availableatamazon If Pelly is right that "music has been reimagined by streaming," then despite her book's focus on secular pop music, it has implications for the church and people of faith.
Unless the Lord Builds an Affordable House
Survivors displaced by LA fires turn to churches and ministries for help navigating the worsening crisis. Six months before the owners of her Pasadena, California, apartment sold the building, retired missionary Laura Raab started looking for new housing. By the time the official move notice came, area rents had gone up by $500 a month-well beyond what she could afford on her modest fixed income. Raab started to think she'd have to leave Southern California altogether.
Destination Oh Yeah! Travel Tips And Travel Picks For 2025
Why just travel to someplace you’ve never been, doing something different among total strangers in an effort to satisfy your need for a break from the routine. Instead, go to Destination Oh Yeah! We’re going to give you some unusual but spiritually strengthening travel tips and highlight our picks for where you can go to for all of the Oh Yeah! To achieve this status a PLACE has to bring together ‘compelling’ and ‘beautiful’ to have an especially strong cool factor.
Dream Big With These 4 Essential Travel Lessons - map - A Travel Lifestyle Magazine
For the longest time I’ve prayed that God would give me the opportunity to travel and explore His creation full-time. To forsake a home with one address and faithfully step into the unpredictable life of travel, that requires one to dream big, draw on essential travel lessons and fully lean on the Lord. Starting in February of 2025, the Lord has made that possible for me and my husband. This dream and prayer finally gets to bloom. Spring has always been my favorite season.
Winter Getaways That Warm The Heart
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Your Pastor Won't Text You to Ask for Gift Cards
When David Ogan, a priest in the Orthodox Church in America, had a family emergency while traveling, fellow Orthodox from around the country were willing to send money to help. They took his calls, heard the story of what happened, and wired him the funds he needed right away. After all, the church upholds acts of mercy, a selfless form of Christian love in action. Except the calls weren't from Ogan, and there was no emergency.
Wounded Tiger – A Journey To Japan, Redemption And Forgiveness - map - A Travel Lifestyle Magazine
All photos and stock video footage in this article are copyright by T. Martin Bennett, used by permission. Today you can journey to Japan to experience the sites, culture, people and food like you’d do any other international travel. But, when you study relatively recent history (the World War 2 era of the 1940’s), they were bombing us, we were bombing them [the featured photo above is of The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (広島平和記念碑, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinenhi)] – – – we were bitter enemies.
The Best Way to Save Money Cooking for One? Think Like a Co-op. Original
About a decade ago, Angelika Zamfirescu couldn't get her favorite coffee beans from her local C.S.A. in Astoria, Queens. Her neighbor, she learned, had the same frustration. So the two women joined with other friends and neighbors to order in bulk directly from the roaster. Their 10-pound orders continued for at least two years. When solo cooks like Ms. Zamfirescu, 56, a somatic therapist, find friends and neighbors to share groceries with, it helps them get better prices.
Building Destination Church Communities
In the “old days,” communities were built around religious institutions – literally – the church was the center of the town, both physically and spiritually. Today, as communities become more diverse, especially in the U.S., some churches are experiencing declines in their local congregation. The situation has been exacerbated when COVID in 2020 started a new trend of streaming religious services.
SOLO PLANET - Travel As A Single Woman
Taken from Solo Planet: How Singles Help the Church Recover Our Calling Journalist Anna Broadway traveled around the world, visiting nearly 50 countries on six continents in 17 months to interview nearly 350 Christians about their experience with singleness. Discussing a variety of topics—loneliness, sexuality, aging, housing, cooking, celebrations, parenting, and many more, it gives us a global-church perspective of how singles live and experience life inside and outside of the church.
Do Single Christians Need a Better Theology of Singleness, or Better Relationship Training?
Marriage is on the decline, at least in the United States, but whether you see that as a crisis or an opportunity depends on how you frame ideal life and community. As two recent books show, it’s possible for Christians to reach very different conclusions about the current state of relationships. That’s a good thing. Those who lament declining marriage tend to focus on what it means for families and children—and rightly so.
Can Christian singles still thrive without a partner? How singles around the world confront the likelihood of remaining unmarried by Anna Broadway
The late-July sun bakes Valencia the Thursday I resort to googling “Mass in English.” Nearly two months into a six-continent trip to research the global experience of singleness, my connections fail me; I find myself in a city where I have no Christian contacts besides what the internet might supply, and just a few days lodging before I must move on. Fighting a sense of defeat, I look through the options, eventually contacting one of the Spanish city’s oldest churches: Sant Joan de l’Hospital.
It’s the Summer of Weddings. Here Are Other Milestones We Can Celebrate.
After delaying weddings for a year, an unusually high number of couples are celebrating nuptials or one-year anniversaries this summer as the CDC lifts social-distancing restrictions for vaccinated people. But watching the joyous announcements and photos of this season triggered an internal battle over my status as a single woman and my “success” in adult life.
James Hamblin - Clean: The New Science of Skin
Humor, Fresh Air and Time in Nature A Review of Clean: The New Science of Skin James Hamblin Hardback: Riverhead Books, 2020 Buy Now: [ IndieBound ] [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ] [ Audible ] Reviewed by Anna Broadway With in-person work and worship resuming, many of us face a reckoning with our pandemic hygiene habits. As James Hamblin argues in his book Clean, that’s probably a good thing. If you’re like me, your skin probably isn’t the first thing you’d list among those changed by the pandemic.
Opinion | How Some Churches Leave Singles Behind
Social distancing at church has been especially hard on single Christians. From Tanzania to the U.K., Christians impute to marriage and children a sense of maturity and worth. This often makes singles feel like what the Chinese call “bare branches.” Intentionally or not, churches regularly reinforce this attitude through marriage-centric sermons or religious classes for singles that focus on marriage as a goal, overlooking many older or celibate worshippers.
Opinion | Holding Your Friend’s Hand May Feel Strange. Do It Anyway.
Guest Essay May 22, 2021, 11:00 a.m. ET By Anna Broadway Ms. Broadway is working on a book about the experience of being single in countries around the world. Before the pandemic, she spent more than a year traveling, conducting interviews and observing how people interact with each other. I was crossing a vast, chaotic Dar es Salaam intersection one evening when a pastor I’d known just a few days took my hand. He held on until we crossed the street and reached a more tranquil path.
Blessed Are the Cobblers, Recyclers, and Thrift-Store Shoppers
Where do you want your stuff to go when you die? If you’re like most people, as Adam Minter writes in his fascinating book Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale, you want to see someone else find use for your belongings. But the very fact that one might have things to distribute at life’s end has little historical precedence.
What Christians Really Think About the Church’s Relationship Advice
Over the years, Christians have produced and read far more books on how relationships and singleness should work than on how these things actually do pan out. Vicky Walker’s new book Relatable: Exploring God, Love, & Connection in the Age of Choice, based on a survey of more than 1,400 people, aims to change that. Walker writes from a more-or-less Protestant British perspective, but American Christians will find much they recognize.
Keep the Easter Spirit Alive
Several years ago, when I was still living in New York, I interviewed for a couple jobs in California. At the time, my greatest hope hinged on moving to the West Coast, but as I waited, I asked God to help me rejoice, whatever the answer. One bitter cold day in January, I heard back: neither company wanted me. As I stood in my tiny kitchen, absorbing the news, I foresaw the familiar emotional spiral into which I could easily tumble. But I had pledged to rejoice.
God Called Me to Quit My Job. But Did I Trust Him Without a Paycheck?
This past May, when I set out on a year-long trip to research singleness around the world, I was confident that I could keep financial disaster and worry at bay. I had modest savings, plans to keep my expenses lean, and hopes of finding freelance work to offset costs. I thought I wouldn’t need to ask that much of God. I thought I could trust him without really having to trust him. I thought I could follow him without leaving the boat.
How to Bike Home Your Christmas Tree in 11 Simple Steps
Mark Byrnes/CityLab Don't forget bungee cords, peanut butter, and the kindness of strangers. Stop with the pine-scented candles already: This year, get an actual tree! It’s easy. All you need is a bungee cord, a cargo rack, and a bike.
Picture This: A Closer Look at Mindy Kaling's Elle Cover
Your local newsstand may not yet have the February issue of Elle, but the stampede to critique Mindy Kaling's cover has already prompted her to defend the black-and-white close-up to no less than David Letterman. The other covers in the four-piece "women in television" issue featured full-color, fuller-body portraits of Amy Poehler, Zooey Deschanel, and Allison Williams.
How to Date When You’re Almost Middle-Aged
The older you get, the weirder your prospects for marriage become. At least that’s what a then-single cousin once told me. Those weren’t her exact words, of course, but the gist of what she said was that our odd quirks and habits become more prominent as time passes, and our rough spots get rougher without enough close human friction to sand-smooth them down. My cousin was probably younger than I am now when she said that and free to date without today’s many online “aids” to romance.
How the search for a soulmate went from church potlucks to Tinder
When the star of “The Mindy Project” began dating a Lutheran minister, their relationship drew attention for its largely positive portrayal of a Christian. But the couple surprised in other ways, too: they not only met in person instead of online or by phone, they drew closer after Mindy attended a church service.
How to Bike Home Your Christmas Tree in 11 Simple Steps
Stop with the pine-scented candles already: This year, get an actual tree! It’s easy. All you need is a bungee cord, a cargo rack, and a bike. Yep, you heard me.
We Wish You a Busy Easter
As a child, I'm not sure I would have told you Easter was a holiday. Christmas prompted weeks of preparation on a church musical; commandeered displays at every store; and mustered a parade of boxes in the mail bearing presents from far-off relatives. In comparison, Easter seemed like just another Sunday.
Pink Wasn't Always Girly
Toward the end of the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, Jay shows up to lunch with his mistress and her husband in a pink suit. For modern readers, it's tempting to take his color selection as a sign of dandyism. Why would a man choose to wear the color of Mary Kay, breast-cancer research tie-ins and kitchen gadgets galore? When cuckolded husband Tom Buchanan criticizes Gatsby for wearing pink, he seemingly echoes the present-day assumption that pink is a feminine color.
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