Some people still don’t understand why Alabama couple Chris and Jess Gordon have become respite foster parents. “I get people saying things to me like, ‘Oh, I…

by Susan Tonarelli When our son was 2, specialists diagnosed him with severe developmental delays and autism. I didn’t know anyone at the time with a special…

By Patricia Hartley Our church was in debt. Big-time debt. A big, looming debt we still owed from the $7 million loan we had taken to build…

Capable is a word I have always thought applied to me. Growing up, I was not the top student in high school or the best dancer in…

It started by accident, really. Their niece had to quit college in order to make ends meet for her family. She had a car to get to…

In 2016, Billy Ivey posted a silly note he’d scribbled on a paper napkin to Instagram. The note itself wasn’t unusual. Billy writes one every day for…

The internet is a weird place. Aside from AUTHENTIK, there are a lot of websites that can take you down into the Rabbit Hole of Strange. At…

Jay Lowder was taking a nap after school one day in 1979 when his mom woke him up by screaming at him to get in the car,…

Here you had two boys with labels of disabilities. They lived in abject poverty … had experienced homelessness, loss, trauma, all before the age of 18, and…

Crystal and her family weren’t expecting the devastating, mile-wide tornado that leveled much of southern Joplin, Missouri, six years ago. Neither were the weathermen for that matter.…