Some Children are Thankful for Bathrooms and Those Who Build Them
Not many children will be asking for a toilet this Christmas. That’s not something you’d expect to see sticking out of Santa’s red sack. Not many of us can imagine sending our children to school that doesn’t have any toilets, either. Yet many...
30 Years Later Henry Peabody Returns to the Buduburam Refugee Camp
A few weeks ago, Rev. Henry Peabody revisited the Buduburam Refugee Camp, located twenty-seven miles west of Accra, Ghana, where he spent several years of his life over 30 years ago. Henry was one of the hundreds of thousands of Liberian refugees displaced by a...
Anxiety in the Family System
When my wife and I were raising our two sons, we noticed the oldest was struggling with anxiety issues. We took him to a psychologist, and after a couple of sessions, she said, “Don’t bring him back. You are wasting your money. I can’t get him to talk to me.” My...
Avoidance Allows Fear to Grow
When I was a child/adolescent, I was diagnosed with a “nervous stomach.” Fifty years ago, I don’t know how much my doctor knew about the correlation between anxiety and the body. My doctor never used the word “anxiety” to describe my condition, nor was I ever offered...