Jennifer Eshleman Huff
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When Jesus Stopped: Why He Didn’t Choose Between Two Women in Pain
In Luke 8, two women—one visible and one invisible—encounter the steady presence of Jesus. What He does for them reveals a compassionate, attentive way of seeing, naming and restoring others and ourselves in our anguish. When I was almost twelve, I nearly died. I had contracted a 108-degree fever and widespread boils covered every square…
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Shame to Freedom: Mary Magdalene Called by Name
Some stories feel so familiar that we stop truly seeing them. We think we already know how they unfold. Mary Magdalene’s story falls into that category. For generations, people have remembered Mary Magdalene as a woman marked by sin, rescued by grace and quietly grateful for forgiveness. And that’s accurate. But it seems to me…
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Trauma-Informed Evangelism in a Wounded World
I grew up in the glow of a global mission and the shadows of quiet suffering. My father, Paul Eshleman, passionately launched and directed Jesus Film Project® to offer every person on earth the chance to know Jesus. Around dinner tables and in ministry meetings, we talked about translations, new believers and the unreached. The…
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Paul Eshleman’s Legacy: JESUS in Thousands of Heart Languages
In the 1950s, Bill Bright, the founder of Campus Crusade for ChristⓇ (now known as CruⓇ in the U.S.), envisioned creating a film about the life of Jesus. That vision became a reality thirty years later when my father, Paul Eshleman, launched the JESUS film and founded Jesus Film ProjectⓇ shortly after. Today, the JESUS…