Author: AJ Canterbury
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When A Voice Is Silenced
Reflections on the loss of a Christian leader Read Time: 10 minutes by AJ Canterbury I spent most of September 10 with my phone on SOS as I subbed in a classroom with poor cellular connectivity. I was used to not getting text messages or news notifications, so the stray notification that fought through the…
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How to Trust God When Tragedy Strikes
Read Time: 5 minutes by AJ Canterbury As the majority of the United States prepared for barbecues and fireworks on Independence Day, the Texas Hill Country awoke to catastrophe. Overnight, the rain started to fall, and the river rose 25 feet in 45 minutes. The flood waters decimated homes and property and swept people away.…
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Pursuing a Legacy That Will Last
Read Time: 10 minutes by AJ Canterbury Ever since elementary school, joining the Garden Spot Performing Arts (GSPA) stood as my greatest ambition once I entered high school. The theater production was performing a musical and selected two students from each neighboring primary school, and my best friend, Sarah, and I were nominated from ours.…
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Why the Incarnation is Worth Remembering
Read Time: 3 minutes by AJ Canterbury December never slows down. The older I get, the faster the days between Thanksgiving and December 25 go. I hate to see it draw to a close. The season of Advent (the four weeks prior to Christmas day), packed with so much anticipation, remains my favorite time of…
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How God’s Sovereignty Conquers Anxiety
Traveling: Doing Hard Things-Part II Read Time: 7 minutes by AJ Canterbury My loneliest years followed the death of my mother to cancer. To compound the emotional loss of the core of my family, I moved from Pennsylvania to Minnesota where I had no ties. I went through the first year disconnected from the world…
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What I Would’ve Missed If Disability Kept Me Home
Traveling: Doing Hard Things-Part 1 Read Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury I’ve called many places “home” over the course of my four decades, but Pennsylvania houses my roots. It isn’t where I was born or even the first state I lived in, but it is the place I completed all my primary education, the…
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What to Do the Day God is Not Good?
Read Time: 3 minutes By AJ Canterbury (article was first published on August 29, 2022) “Life is hard; God is good.”. It was the mantra that had summed up the last decade of my walk with Jesus. I looked out over the gymnasium filled with church members and people from the community, as I rehearsed…
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Remembering Mom Through Writing
Photo by ameenfahmy on Unsplash Read Time: 3 minutes by AJ Canterbury Time yellows the corners of memory. Recollections get fuzzy and faces blur. The mind struggles to piece together who was doing what and who was where. I have always been grateful that God has given me a mind that captures and stores the past. When I…
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Did God Give Disability to Humble Me?
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Read Time: 4 minutes by AJ Canterbury During my final semester in college, I was taking a senior seminar psychology class. Our major project was to co-present a paper for a research competition. Most of our class periods were spent pouring over research articles to fit into our final projects. Our small…
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When God Showed Me Healing Wasn’t Best
Photo by Pablo Heimplatz on Unsplash Read Time: 6 minutes by AJ Canterbury An end to suffering drives us. When we encounter pain, we immediately crane our necks in search of the fire escape. No one is (nor should be) a fan of physical suffering because personal suffering hurts and it’s uncomfortable and feels unnatural. At least I…
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