Family & Relationships

I grew up in Guyana and unlike many, was lucky. I was certainly stubborn but also fortunate. The 'Third world' as it was known, had so many young people faced with a lifetime of struggle and poverty. They did almost anything, legal or illegal just to...

How can you deny me of my form? Hibiscus, Kishawna's debut poetry book, challenges us to examine what we've been through and remember who we are. Hibiscus features a collection of poems that dive into topics of resilience, love, lust, mental health, and...

16th Annual Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year - Culture We live in conflicted times. Our newsfeeds are filled with inequality, division, and fear. We want to make a difference and see justice restored because Jesus calls us to be a peacemaking and...

As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy's livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and...

It's Thanksgiving week, 1989. We're in Big Piney and Little Piney, two hollows near the town of Garnet in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A handful of mismatched folks - some country people, some far-flung, fancy people - discover they have one thing in...

It's Thanksgiving week, 1989. We're in Big Piney and Little Piney, two hollows near the town of Garnet in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A handful of mismatched folks - some country people, some far-flung, fancy people - discover they have one thing in...

If a child is brought up without any outside influences but the word of God, what kind of child would he grow up to be? Gideon is one such child. Found by a single woman in an unused motel room, the baby boy seems to be nothing short of a miracle from...

If a child is brought up without any outside influences but the word of God, what kind of child would he grow up to be? Gideon is one such child. Found by a single woman in an unused motel room, the baby boy seems to be nothing short of a miracle from...

This is the poignant and triumphant story of Terrence K. Williams, who was born into nothing; neglected, starved, abused, and beaten, a product of the foster home system. He grew up without a table to sit at, let alone food to eat, yet today is endeared...

This book will hopefully bring the justice that should have been done in the first place. It has been a long ride of being hungry and lonely for the author. I really hope justice will come, and he will finally be happy and be with his kids again. Its...

This six-year-old child was put in a position that she never forgot that shaped the person that she became. Even though Clara was only six years old, she was smart beyond her years; and while she loved her family, she had already determined that the life...

Poetic Memoirs, written over the course of 21 years, Faith of a Child chronicles one Christian's Spiritual Journey, from childhood to mid-life. What can be expected from a child who is the product of a home filled with violence and domestic abuse? Faith...