by David Stippick | Sep 30, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Earlier this year, my family’s life changed drastically and forever. While in New York, our son had a brain injury that put him in a medically induced coma for several weeks. This stranded the three of us in the city for a month and a half and ultimately, in...
by Craig Nash | Aug 23, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The email I received read, “We are on the way to IHOP. We will be there by 9 a.m. Thank you. Our daughter is in a wheelchair. That’s how you can recognize us.” As a pastor, I had these random meetings several times a year. A couple without a church...
by Angela Grant | Jan 31, 2022 | Opinion
When I learned that a family member had ALS, I knew enough about the disease to know it was a death sentence. Years after Lou Gehrig told a baseball crowd that he was “the luckiest man alive,” there are few treatments that can slow it down, and none that can stop it....
by Louise Morse | Jun 12, 2019 | Opinion
How does it feel to live with dementia? And where is God in this? “Dementia from the Inside” is a book written from the point of view of Jennifer Bute, a doctor diagnosed with early-onset dementia. It says all you really need to know. When my first book on dementia...
by Joe LaGuardia | May 12, 2014 | Opinion
A friend of mine lives right down the street from her mother. They have a good relationship, and they’ve become closer since the woman’s father passed away a few years ago. Without him around anymore, though, the mother is demanding more of her time. My...
