"I could feel hot, salty tears coming down my face. I sat and cried silently... I was scrunching myself up against the wall as far as I could. All of a sudden, someone from behind us taps on the guy’s shoulder..."
In churches across America, a quiet but consequential conversation is unfolding. It often begins with a question—sometimes whispered, sometimes posted publicly on social media....
"Once intimacy begins to wane, it can become hard to get back on track. One of the keys to reconnecting is understanding that intimacy is a multifaceted thing. In fact, there are five different types of intimacy, and only when we keep all five functioning can we have marriages that feel profoundly connected."
As Sarah stood in the hospital bathroom processing the unfathomable event that was to unfold after the devastating loss of her husband, she asked God in a tone reminiscent of Job, "Haven’t I endured enough?"
Sometimes God uses the unlikeliest of vessels to lead us down the road to redemption and point us toward Him. For Christian actress Andrea Logan White, those vessels were Hugh Hefner and the Playboy Mansion.
"Our church has suddenly become not cool enough, and that same righteous indignation boils up inside of us because we believe we deserve something more…we deserve the best!
