Lament of Hope

Serena Dyksen is the founder of She Found His Grace, which is an abortion recovery ministry based in northern Indiana. Serena was sexually assaulted at the age of thirteen by a relative, and had an abortion on Valentine's Day in 1989 to terminate the resulted pregnancy. Serena shared with me her abortion experience, its effects on herself and that of her family, and her heart for women who have had an abortion.

David Vetter is still known as "the boy in the bubble." He became known worldwide in the late twentieth century for living with a rare autoimmune disease that required him to live within artificial structures until his death at the age of twelve. Dr. Rev. Raymond J. Lawrence served as David's hospital chaplain for a short time, as well as wrote the introduction to Bursting the Bubble: The Tortured Life and Untimely Death of David Vetter. Dr. Raymond took the time to discuss with me his perspective of David's life within sterilized structures.

Katy Bowser Hutson is the author of Now I Lay Me Down to Fight, a collection of poetry and essays that document Katy's physical, emotional, and spiritual journey with breast cancer. Katy took the time to sit down with me to discuss her book and her experience with breast cancer. 

Nomi Harper's mom, Renée Duering, was a survivor of Auschwitz's Block 10, an experimental sterilization block in the concentration camp. Nomi shares the horrors her mother experienced while in the camp, how Renée survived three death marches, and Renée's desperate attempt to have a child after surviving the war.

Samantha Geimer was raped in 1977 by famous director, Roman Polanski, when she was thirteen-years-old. Samantha shared with me how she met Roman Polanski, the trauma she and her family experienced from the press and the court system during the Polanski case, and how she views the media industry at this point in her life.

Director of the Armenian National Institute, Rouben Adalian, sat down with me several weeks ago to discuss the Armenian Genocide. It was a gift for me to get to hear from a man who has devoted his life to learning about and exposing this tragic period in history.

Attention all literature nerds!! If you are a fan of Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, I would highly recommend giving this interview a watch. Juliet Barker is a British literary biographer and historian who sat down with me to discuss the lives of the Brontë sisters and their written works.

Kurt Bestor talked with me about his love of music, and how he sees music as a means to bring healing and harmony to the world. Kurt Bestor's musical oratorio, The Redeemer, will be performed at The Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland this Thursday, March 28th, from 7-8:30 p.m.

Corina Caba was the mother of fifteen baby orphans in her early twenties in Romania shortly after the fall of Communism in the country. Corina shared with me how she started caring for Romanian orphans, how the Lord provided for her needs and those of her children, and the beauty of singleness in service to Christ. 

Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder on the popular TV series Little House on the Prairie, talked with me about being known as an iconic character, his fascination with voice acting, and how he wishes we as people would interact with one another.