Rare Faith Blog

Student Spotlight: Jamie Jensen

When she was in her early twenties, Jamie Jensen fully recovered from Stage lV kidney disease, depression, and cardiovascular disease. In her words, it was "through pe...

By Heidi Dahlke

In my college English class, I had a professor who encouraged us to write by focusing on a moment—a snapshot of our lives—and to describe it using all five senses. Years later, while ...

By Heidi Dahlke

From the moment I got married, I found myself exposed to a steady stream of multi-level marketing programs. I joined several of them, always hoping this one would be the key—the one t...

Tamara Shimmin

Breaking free from the debt yo-yo and stepping into lasting financial freedom can feel overwhelming. You’ve gotten out of debt before—maybe even more than once—only to find yourself ba...

By Lena Mattice

Life often feels like a mix of good days and bad days. But as Lehi says in the Book of Mormon:

“For it must needs be that there is an opposition in all things. If not so... righteo

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By Kathleen Taylor

About a year after my divorce, I found myself needing some extra cash. The only real asset I had left was our twelve-passenger van. I don’t live in a big city with public transport...

Tamara Shimmin

How could I have missed it?

We talked about this in Mindset Mastery. I’d seen Leslie Householder’s Visual Aid That Changed Everything. I’d read The Jackrabbit Factor and Portal to Gen...

By Laura Curtis

Worry. Fear.
Worry. Fear.
Sleepless nights.
My mind racing—running scenarios over and over.
What if? What now? What will we do?

The concern consumed me. I found myself in tears const...

Tamara Shimmin

We were living the dream—only, the dream wasn’t quite what we had imagined.

My husband and I had bought an RV with visions of roaming the country, exploring state and national parks, ...

By Rochelle Lloyd

988 square feet.
That’s all we had.

We had moved into our little home with two young boys and a strong assurance that God had led us there. It wasn’t meant to be forever—we figured...

By Laura Curtis

For a year and a half, my husband and I were in the thick of remodeling our home—making it more functional for our family and lifestyle. Somewhere in the middle of it all, we ended up...

By Rochelle Lloyd

Vulnerability—the ability to be vulnerable.
It shows up in many forms, and most of us have to reckon with it at some point. For some, it's a minor inconvenience that appears in spec...

By Roseanne Dawes

I taught elementary school for eight years before I finally felt the nudge to resign and become an entrepreneur. Actually, those promptings started a full year earlier, encouraging ...

By Rochelle Lloyd

For years, I knew I needed something more in my life—but I couldn’t figure out what that was. I was a busy mom with five kids, ages 9 to 19. Life felt chaotic—both inside and out. J...

By Heidi Dahlke

Seven years ago, I set a goal: to complete a Spartan race with my husband and our 14- and 11-year-old sons. We had spent months preparing in different ways, training and getting ready...

By Lena Mattice

That's My Lineman
He holds back two guys so your son can get,
around to make the tackle
He stands his ground, pushes other guys around,
so your son can make the play.
He never folds under ...

By Lena Mattice

Everyone has dreams. Some people chase them and see them come true, while others quietly set them aside. For some, dreams become goals with a plan. For others, they stay distant—thing...

By Roseanne Dawes

I got a text from my daughter saying she was getting married—in five days—right after her bridal shower.
Wait. What? How? When?!

My brain went from zero to a hundred in a matter of...