The Journal is a window into our world. A place to ponder and practice what we learn together on the path to hope, healing, and abundant life. A collection of voices sharing stories of life together in an Unbridled community. Not always clean and tidy, but it’s home…and the safest place we know for learning to be real…on our way to becoming whole…so we can partner with God to do the same for others.
Our Journal Contributors
Julie Miles
The most familiar voice of the Journal, Julie shares universal themes of the healing journey to break the silence and isolation of secret shame.
Olivia McGraw
The Executive Director of ACTS who loves Africa, good coffee, and quality conversations (especially all three at once).
“Loving people to life” sometimes means walking alongside friends dealing with the loss of a loved one. Last year, Jen Kamins (in the San Diego Unbridled office) experienced the unimaginable…
We know it’s better to give than to receive. Sometimes I also find it easier to give than to receive. Allowing others to give, especially when we reluctantly need their…
Nothing reawakens the heart quite like the return of spring's first daffodils, tulips, and new green. And right on time! The perfect cure for winter-weary souls as warmer temps invite us…
Thank goodness for Thanksgiving. Such a simple holiday. Still relatively untouched by commercialism, whether you call it Friendsgiving, Food & Football, Gobble & Wobble, or Turkey & Toast. By any name,…
Year after year, the seasons come and go...reminding us of the constancy of change. The regularity is astonishing, actually, if you stop to think about it...not that we do. There’s…
Twenty-five years ago, in the rural village of Kitgum, Jackie Packa entered the world during a time of great difficulty for her homeland of Northern Uganda. As if the poverty…
Don’t look now, folks, but summer’s half over. Oh, my! Of course, I had to go and bring it up...which makes my stomach turn just a little. Sorry about that...but…
If the thought of "too close, too crowded, too clingy" makes your chest tighten, it might be a tell-tale sign of enmeshment somewhere in your past. Add to that a…
Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer, the end of the school year, the opening of community pools, the first sounds of outdoor concerts, and the snowmelt that clears the…
I love this picture. It reminds me that if I hang on just a little longer...it'll all be worth it. That's what we tell each other here in Denver when it's…