Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in December 2020. By a wide margin, it is the most-read and most-shared post in this blog’s history. We present it again in honor of what would have been Darcie’s 56th birthday. “There’s no...
Ron Smith already had struggled since his teens with crystal meth addiction. Then in 2013, both of his parents were killed by a drunk driver. “The only way I knew how to deal with that kind of pain was to use even more meth—all day, every day,” he says. “When I came...
Video produced by Nate Carter Growing up in suburban Milwaukee, Kaylee Gahm was accustomed to succeeding in whatever she set her mind to. As a young adult, she set her sights on nursing school, knowing this would be her biggest challenge yet. When school didn’t go...
For Katie Townsend, there’s no faith vs. works conversation. The two exist together always, organically. To explain it, she uses the idea of a bean planted in a field. “Plants produce oxygen and good food,” she says. “And underneath, the roots are interacting with the...
Laura and Aaron Biby have been married almost 20 years. Their three boys are 9, 10 and 12. This past year they have faced the biggest trial of their lives. After Laura’s breast cancer diagnosis in 2021, she and Aaron weighed the options with her doctors. They decided...
Rich and Jackie Mansen’s lives had been on parallel tracks, but they didn’t intersect until each of them lost their spouses to cancer. Jackie and her first husband, Skip, had worked for decades as Wycliffe Bible Translators missionaries among the Rotokas people of...
