by Lexie Stallings | Feb 25, 2019 | Becky Douglas, Meridian Magazine
This article originally appeared in Meridian Magazine I saw a remarkable documentary about Mother Teresa years ago. One of the scenes in the documentary showed her Missionaries of Mercy going into Beirut, Lebanon during a bombing siege, to rescue babies in an...
by Lexie Stallings | Oct 21, 2018 | Becky Douglas, Meridian Magazine
Original article featured in Meridian Magazine I sat next to a reporter at an exclusive luncheon in New York City put on by Traditional Homes Magazine. This was their annual event to honor “Five Classic Women”. Each year the Magazine had its readers send in...
by Lexie Stallings | Apr 24, 2018 | Becky Douglas, Meridian Magazine
Written by Becky Douglas and originally appeared for Meridian Magazine When my son Alex was fourteen, he traveled to India to spend his summer volunteering at Rising Star Outreach. This was in the very beginning of our service in India, before we had opened...
by Lexie Stallings | Jan 11, 2018 | Becky Douglas, Education, Meridian Magazine
This story first appeared for Meridian Magazine on January 7, 2018 It was only a pre-school, but we were unbelievably excited to actually be opening a school for the leprosy-affected in Southern India. We would start with a preschool—children only 3-5 years...
by Lexie Stallings | Nov 9, 2017 | Becky Douglas, Meridian Magazine
This article by Becky Douglas, first appeared in Meridian Magazine · November 7, 2017 Two little boys were ushered by their mother into the smoke-filled room where we were waiting. She had just brought them from a leprosy colony. Stick thin and shy, they clung...
by Lexie Stallings | Oct 12, 2017 | Meridian Magazine, Stigma
This article, written by Becky Douglas, first appeared in Meridian Magazine on October 4, 2017. Several years ago a letter arrived with a return address that immediately caught my attention. It was from a prisoner in Maximum Security at the Utah State Prison....