You Should Go to Cuba
/Spring break in Cuba was all I could have dreamed of and more.
Read MoreSpring break in Cuba was all I could have dreamed of and more.
Read MoreLiving in Europe was not at all what I expected. I thought I would fall in love with the continent and want to stay forever, by to my great surprise, it taught me how to love my own country.
Read MoreThe best of my travel advice right now for solo traveling, especially on a budget!
Read More2019 is finally here and as usual, January is seemingly 7 months long.
Read MoreThey call Budapest “The Pearl of the Danube” for good reason! 4 days in Budapest wasn’t nearly enough and I’m already dreaming of visiting again someday.
Read MoreA whirlwind month of settling into life in Prague plus trips to Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany!
Read MoreA weekend trip in Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, and Luxembourg City with our friend Thomas!
Read MoreWe spent a weekend in Poland enjoying all that Krakow had to offer and touring the museum on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.
Read MoreGA-SC-NC-VA-MD-DE-NJ-NY-VT-QC. It’s been a bit of a month! From the end of my second year of Seminary to the beginning of my Chaplaincy program, May was full to the brim.
Read MoreMy road trip up the Eastern seaboard with Alexandra from Decatur, GA to Burlington, VT. It’s the start of a beautiful summer!
Read MoreMarch roars like a lion, or in the case of Atlanta, is too cold and rainy to be enjoyable but not cold enough to snow. Between a month of rain and the final weeks of Lent, I'm more than ready to say goodbye to March. There were a few bright and shiny moments of March and I finally saw the ocean once again.
Read MoreJanuary included over 50 hours on airplanes, not to mention countless trains, buses, cars, and boats. This month I got to see new parts of this world and be in all three of my homes. What an incredible (and busy!) month.
Read MoreIn the middle of your time at Columbia, all M.Div students are required to go on an immersion learning trip, either in the city of Atlanta, within the United States, or somewhere around the world. I was chosen for the trip to India, as one of 14 students and led by 3 faculty members. Above all, I am so grateful to this incredible group of peers and professors. I was constantly encouraged and challenged by each of them.
Read MoreAugust was such a blur that I can't quite believe it's over. I spent most of the month whining about Greek School and the rest of the month trying to forget about it. It was a month of pushing through. I had to struggle through my hardest academic challenge yet (which praise God, I passed) and then had an incredible vacation in California. Most of the month didn't feel very spectacular, but looking back it was still full of life. Summer may be wrapping up, but knowing Georgia, I've got about 3 months of warm weather ahead!
Read MoreWhen my friends call me adventurous, often I think to myself, “you should meet my parents.” No matter how adventurous my life may seem, it’s just a fraction of what I inherited from my crazy parents. They met (via each others' prayer letters) while she was working as a missionary in Italy and he was in the Peace Corps in Western Samoa. Once they married and had kids, the adventures didn’t cease and our family travelled all around the world together. After my brother graduated from high school, my parents decided that turning 60 was no reason to stop the adventures, so my mom got a job with the US State Department as an English Language Fellow in Ethiopia. My dad took a leave of absence from work and followed her to Hawassa.
Read MoreRev. Laura Nile Tuell is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Laura serves as a solo pastor in Lakewood, WA and lives in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma with her husband David and their three young children, Jack, Eli, & Viola, and their Carolina dog, Penny.
For further contact, Laura can be reached at lauraniletuell@gmail.com