Author name: Melissa G Pickens

If God intends the holy union of a man and a woman in marriage to be a symbol of redemption and re-creation, ours has certainly tested that intent to its fullest. There is no relationship more vulnerable, none that will require so much of us than that of marriage. To […]

On suffering, I felt like I’d heard it all inside and outside the church. Both were found lacking. We’ve forgotten true compassion ~ to come alongside and suffer with, and we’ve lost our capacity for long-suffering (alongside others and in our own). When two of our girls were in a