Carolyn MacInnes

Here’s how you can help your loved one out of the darkness of depression.

Almost overnight, my sweet elementary school friends became the “baddest” girl gang at Pioneer Middle School. For no apparent reason, at least that I could see, I was their lone target. They cornered me between classes and after school. They mocked me …

Help for parents who wonder how to guide their children’s use of technology in today’s tech-risky culture.

If your kids ever wonder, “What does God look like?” send them to me. I’ve seen His hands. I’ve seen them all my life – on an Iowa couple named George and Ruth. Before I could even read, I watched those hands empty bedpans, prepare sponge baths and fee …

How do you help your children care for others?

How do we prepare our kids to be “shrewd as serpents, and harmless as doves” when they serve? How do we teach them to discern how to give and serve with widsom?

How do we foster and nurture a strong work ethic in our kids, which will be pleasing to God?

Finding volunteer opportunities for your kids is a good way to teach them compassion and stewardship as part of their service to God.

Give your children a sense of the importance of joyful giving by being a good model.

Learn how one mother experienced the joys and sorrows of bonding with her adopted daughter.

Bonsai keepers remove everything but what is essential to the plant. We cultivate holiness in a similar fashion.

These special memory albums can help your adopted child piece together the past.

People often want to talk about adoption. Unfortunately, they sometimes don’t know how.

By understanding the three Cs of financial contentment, you can live large — regardless of the size of your budget.

Part of the Depression Series Depression How to Help When Your Spouse Is Depressed No Teen is an Island Depression in the Christian Family The Light of Depression Series About: Emotional Health Tim and Sandra sit close together on their porch swing, ho …