Some of the best from a very bad 2020
On New Year’s Day 2020, I looked ahead with anticipation. Trips were set, plans were made and adventure awaited. On March 2, I posted on…
Laura Akins
Reviews Editor
Laura Akins loves music, audiobooks and podcasts — anything she can listen to while juggling her many side gigs and life with four kids.
And now she has a legitimate excuse to consume all the media.
Akins returned to The Christian Chronicle as the reviews editor in March 2020 and looks forward to sharing resources that bring her closer to Jesus. Previously, she served as the editor’s assistant for the Chronicle from September 2014 to June 2016, when she took a break to focus primarily on fostering children.
She and her family attend Heritage Church of Christ in Edmond, Okla., where Laura serves as a youth ministry director and her husband, Travis, is the preacher. Over the last decade, the Akinses have opened their home to 11 foster children, but recently, they made the difficult decision to concentrate solely on their four biological kids: Reese, Lucy, Wiley and Scout.
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Ministers struggle under weight of pandemic stress
Many ministers are stressed and exhausted. The profession may be divine, but it takes a toll. “It’s all consuming,” said Celeste Smith, a licensed marriage…
Mother, son share their journey of grief and hope
‘In our culture, we don’t know what to do with the groans of people,” writes Josh Ross in “Scarred Hope: A Mother and Son Learn…
This election, can we tame our digital tongues?
Every time I open Facebook or Instagram, my stomach immediately flips, and I feel sick. Why? Because it’s an election year, and many of my…
Life after Laura
As Hurricane Laura tore through Lake Charles, La., in the early hours of Aug. 27, Dr. Lauren Jacoby kept watch over her patients at the…
As Christians, let’s end ‘corona culture’
EDMOND, Okla. — I thought a disease on the other side of the world would never reach me. Or if it did, it wouldn’t be a big…
Racial reconciliation: Now what?
I'm a White woman. I have never worried about looking suspicious as I walk home from a convenience store, like Trayvon Martin. I don’t worry…
Camp is canceled, but 2020 isn’t
When I was in second or third grade, I attended Iron Springs Christian Camp in Whitney, Texas. I missed my mom so much, I made…
Socially distanced summer camp?
Nothing about the year 2020 has been easy. From a worldwide pandemic to racial tensions, many Christians wish they could step away and recharge at…
Audio app Dwell could save your quarantined spiritual life
How have you been spending your quarantine at home? Are you bingeing on Netflix? Has your mind gone to mush? Is your alone time with…
