Dr. Carmen Joy Imes

"Leap of Faith" by Jasmine May This is the third of three watercolors that Jasmine May shared with me — and I'm delighted ...

InterVarsity published a short piece I wrote for their blog for Women in the Academy and Professions . It went live this morning. Here'...

The trail along the Salmon River offered cool shade that August afternoon. Countless trees, some of them wider than I am tall, others just...

I've had a lot to say over the past year about suffering . But perhaps you are in a season of celebration. If so, I rejoice with you. Li...

A friend from seminary posted this earlier today, and I couldn't help but notice how we're on the same wavelength. If life is not al...

God has gifts to give us that can only come wrapped in suffering. We would rather not receive them. We’d rather mark them “return to se...

In the classroom it may seem like eschatology (the study of the "last things")  is a frivolous topic. Why speculate about how thin...

"You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you c...

I've been thinking a lot lately about a very difficult season Danny and I went through almost 10 years ago. We were in the Philippines, ...

If you're new to my blog, then you might not know that Danny and I have been missionaries with SIM for the past 10 years. I was recently...

I've been caught by surprise twice now at the depth of emotion I still feel remembering 9/11.  Eliana was an infant on that fateful day ...

My devotional today reminded me of the wise words of a good friend. First, the devotional: Charles Ringma, in Dare to Journey with Henri N...

...who wants what she has. A friend from my dorm section in college wrote that out in big letters and stuck it to her wall one year. Someh...

It's wonderfully freeing to realize that our value does not depend on our acheivements. Success does not define who we are or why we mat...

The pace of life is rather dizzying these days. Between school schedules for 3 kids, housework, schoolwork, PhD applications, and preparati...

On this most patriotic of holidays, it's worth asking the question, "What should the relationship between church and state look lik...