MY NEIGHBORS LIVE IN A MESS. Not a literal mess, because their home is repainted every year to ensure cleanliness. Their mess is more emotional; they are playing parents to their three granddaughters whose mother burned their house down—on purpose. Somehow I have become a mother figure to these girls as well. I don’t know firsthand [...]
For the Welfare of Your Soul
by Courtney Kendrick
Downtown Sister Brown and the Department of Defense
by Courtney Kendrick
THE PHONE RANG AWFULLY EARLY for a summer morning. “Ms. Kendrick?” a man’s voice summoned me from my sleep. “This is George Eckles from the Department of Defense. I have some questions to ask you regarding a former mission companion of yours.” Now this is extraordinarily cliché to say, but that is a statement I never [...]
Infertility and Fulfillment
by Courtney Kendrick
TO SAY THAT I HAVE BEEN acquainted with infertility for two years now doesn’t sound like a lot of time. Many go for double and triple that amount. Sarah, the wife of Abraham, longed for a baby for almost a lifetime. But to those of us whose sorrows seem to be intimately tied to our monthly [...]