I was raised in a family active in The United Methodist Church. Though infant baptism is common in the denomination, my family decided not to have me baptized until I was...

Have you ever had an experience so incredible that when you shared it with friends, they did not believe you? Imagine being one of the disciples who discovered the empty tomb...

One afternoon in my second year of college, I had a deep conversation with a friend about college, life, and faith. Before we parted, he asked me a difficult a question:...

In 2006, I was elected as the national president of the United Methodist Youth Fellowship in the Philippines (UMYFP). I headed a small team of young people who were in charge...

When I was a child, my parents would often encourage me to study well because education, they said, was the only inheritance they could give my siblings and me. While public...

Do you remember the early days of social media? If you had a baby or got a pet, went to Disney, a beach in Thailand, or climbed the Eiffel Tower in...

I grew up in the northeastern part of the Philippines, which is visited by about twenty typhoons annually. When we heard the forecast on the radio, we would hunker down for...

I loved listening to my grandmother’s stories. I marveled at how she and my grandfather crossed the Cordillera Mountain Range in the Philippines to move from the western side to the...

Several Muscogee-Creek tribal churches in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference have a special ritual for their services of Holy Communion. The women bake the leavened bread and prepare the elements for...

I think of the types of loss that we face in our lives. Some losses are expected after long illnesses, and some losses are sudden. In whatever way death comes, we...