Have you ever heard the term “generational trauma?” It is the idea that a group of people can experience a collective experience of distress that affects the generation that follows them. Psychological research has proven that generational trauma has affected the next generation’s social, economic, health, and emotional wellbeing. Have you ever considered the generational … Continue reading
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On the Road Back to Me (Finally)
By Jonathan Hall By this point, I have begun to assume that most people are at least somewhat familiar with the Enneagram, if not full-on fanatics. My relationship with the popular personality type system has seen its share of triumph and confusion over the past three or so years that I have known about it, … Continue reading
For International Migrant Day, nine immigrants’ stories
This Friday, Dec. 18, is International Migrants Day. To help us understand immigrants, Fellowship Southwest’s Elket Rodríguez interviewed nine Christian immigrants in different stages of their immigration process. These immigrants represent different countries, races, ethnicities and religious traditions. Some are asylum seekers living in migrant shelters in Mexico, just across the southern border of the … Continue reading
CBF Podcast: Lora Jones and a Conversation About Grief
By Andy Hale The great Henri Nouwen, in his work Out of Solitude, wrote: The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality … Continue reading