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Word Between Worlds
Sharing personal stories of faith, life, and cross-cultural living in the USA.


A Screwtape Letter for the Young Pastor
“It does not matter how small the sins are provided their cumulative effect is to edge the Man away from the Light and out into the...

Rachel Conley
2 days ago4 min read
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A Day in the Lice
I woke up late and was in a hurry getting Jonah ready for school. He was grumpy because he had to go to school, but Evie didn’t. He was...

Rachel Conley
Nov 26, 20244 min read
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Unbroken Spirit: Our Friends from the Persecuted Church
------- “C’est vrai, Roshelle?” Lilly asked me, showing me a news story on her phone about hurricane Milton, set to make landfall later...

Rachel Conley
Oct 15, 20246 min read
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Evie Skates {Lessons in Letting Go}
If you know my husband and I, then you know we are opposites. And never is this more apparent than in our styles of parenting. I accuse...

Rachel Conley
Aug 25, 20246 min read
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Jane Austin Stole My Pen!
"But for my own part, if a book is well-written, I always find it too short." - Austin My dearest husband, I shall now endeavor to...

Rachel Conley
Aug 10, 20243 min read
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All The World's A Stage (and I forgot my pants)!
Being in ministry requires an uncomfortable level of self-promotion. I have to speak in front of churches and other groups and explain...

Rachel Conley
Jul 11, 20246 min read
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Nails, Snails, and Emergency Oranges
{Memoirs of a Tired Mom} I need to wash my face. I keep forgetting I’m wearing makeup - purple lipstick and yellow eyeshadow - and I...

Rachel Conley
May 12, 20246 min read
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The Lutskiy's Story
Ana and Eugene Lutskiy are opposites. Eugene has the charismatic and gregarious personality that you might expect from a social media...

Rachel Conley
Feb 3, 20247 min read
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It's Russian to Me
A lesson on cross-cultural communication Last year, my friend, Gwen, and I took a small group of North African friends camping. It was...

Rachel Conley
Oct 7, 20236 min read
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The Philly Woman
I complain about Philly. I whine about crime, drugs, noise, traffic, and jab at the wayward manners of northerners. Philadelphians often...

Rachel Conley
Sep 4, 20236 min read
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To the City of Brotherly Love (A reflection on 3 years...)
Three years ago, we were sitting inside a mostly empty rental house in Texas, awaiting our return to South Africa with suitcases packed....

Rachel Conley
May 30, 20238 min read
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Fun with Syrians: Teach a Man to Fish (Economics 101)
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese proverb I arrived at the...

Rachel Conley
Jan 6, 20237 min read
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Taco Learns a Lesson
Scientific research says that dogs are good for mental health. They improve your levels of dopamine and serotonin and are clinically...

Rachel Conley
Dec 29, 20224 min read
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Fun with Syrians: Sharing a Meal (part one)
*** Fun with Syrians is a series to be written by both me and Chris to share our experiences among refugees. We hope it will make you...

Rachel Conley
Dec 26, 20226 min read
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Meditations on the Incarnation: Thoughts of a Doula
***Warning: graphic birth content*** This will be the second year in a row that I have a client due on Christmas. In our recent prenatal...

Rachel Conley
Dec 18, 20224 min read
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If Dante Had a Root Canal
If Dante had been more creative in his satirical classic, The Divine Comedy, he would have invented a 10th circle of hell, where people...

Rachel Conley
Dec 12, 20223 min read
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Why We Got a Dog.
My son, Jonah, just has so much love to give. He’s incredibly nurturing but he has no recipients to receive his abundance of affection....

Rachel Conley
Dec 11, 20224 min read
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An Algerian Occasion (And other thoughts on womanhood).
Algerian women love to dress up. All women do, I think. But North African cultures take this to the next level. Of course, I didn’t know...

Rachel Conley
Dec 7, 20225 min read
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The Banya
Working cross-culturally here in the USA, I'm always giving invitations and looking for ways to create community. So, when one of my...

Rachel Conley
Dec 3, 20225 min read
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