Ramon took his job seriously. He wasn’t our bus driver, and he wasn’t our tour guide. I guess his job fell somewhere between navigator and bodyguard. And the entire time our medical team was in the Dominican Republic, he arrived early each morning and left late each night after he was sure that we were [...]

I was twenty-two years old the first time I quit church. I had lived at home and been forced to attend my Dad’s church for more than nineteen years. At age twenty, I moved three hours away from them and began attending a different church. But at age twenty-two, I was seriously thinking about leaving [...]