What Would You Say To Your 16-Year-Old Self?

What would you say to your 16-year-old self? This is a question I get asked all the time but a question I love to ask others who have experienced life more than I have. My answer is always centered on reminding 16-year-old Aisha that it’s ok to not have all the answers. To enjoy HER…

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The Importance of Mentoring

This week, we were joined by Aisha Addo on See Hear Love. She is a founder and director of Power to Girls Foundation, a non-profit organization that gives young girls access to mentors and role models. We discussed the power of mentorship to help to bolster one’s self-esteem and how it is essential in life…

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We Need To Do Life Together

I love to make and develop games. If you’re older than 50, you might know these as “parlour games.” A recent parlour game that I played, was where all participants had to secretly write on a piece of paper, the answer to this question: If you were to write the title for a book about…

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Why We Need Church

This week on the show, we talked church. Specifically, we talked about why fewer Christian women are going to church each week.  According to Pew Research, 20% of women who have stopped going to church say that they are too busy to go and 26% say their beliefs have changed in some way. Church is…

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Formed of Clay: God as Our Father

This week on See Hear Love, we are celebrating Father’s Day. For many, this is a chance to celebrate dads and husbands and stepdads. For others, it’s a painful time, reminding them that they might not have had a good father on this earth. While the world celebrates our earthly fathers (and at See Hear…

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A Peculiar Ethic Of Radical Love

The early followers of Jesus were obsessed with one thing: imitating Jesus. They made two simple claims.  First, they insisted that “Jesus is alive.” And they didn’t say it in a “scientific-proof-trying-to-make-converts” or a “Jesus-has-a-plan-for-your-life” kind of way. For them, “Jesus is alive” meant that Jesus was resurrected and so all of humanity got activated…

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Love Means Staying Put

When Benedictine monks enter the monastery, they make five vows at the time of their entry. One is the vow of stability. Unless the monk is told to go elsewhere by his superiors or by Rome, he must remain in the same monastery for the rest of his life. According to Thomas Merton, the monk…

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Real Love Stays

Petra Kooman, from International Justice Mission (IJM), came on our show to talk about the real love described in 1 John 3:16 (NLT): “We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters.” For Petra, love is…

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Love & Immigration

What is real love? God is love. What does love look like? It’s described in the Bible. Here’s one example: “He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were…

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