PONDERING PURPLE

MKs and the Ache of Unbelonging


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This episode is based on an article by the same name: MKs and the Ache of Unbelonging.


More of my MK-related resources can be found at the following links:

  • My articles on her website.
  • My playlist of video "nuggets" on Youtube.
  • My novel about a missionary family, Of Stillness and Storm.

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      As some of you have asked, I feel like I ought to explain the title of the podcast. It's a nod to the complex, beautiful, sometimes confounding, always life-shaping and ideally life-enhancing effects of growing up in the color swirl of cultures and worlds.


      Helpful definitions:

      • MK or Missionaries' Kid - the child of missionaries.
      • TCK or Third Culture Kid - someone who has spent a majority of his/her formative years in a culture other than his/her passport culture. This includes missionaries' kids, military kids, business kids, diplomats' kids, etc.

      • Music: Bethany J. Dueck.

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