AmyLu Riley

Writer & Author

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https://amylu-riley.com

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Published Articles by AmyLu Riley

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04/25/2016
Someone Else's Lungs

Through my real-life encounters and conversations with transplant recipients and their families, I explore the bioethics of organ transplants. Click article title for full PDF.

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3/14/2018
Soul of a Champ

Meet Sara Beth Vaughn, a woman who pushed back at physical adversity to shape a life of service. Click article title for full PDF.

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05/2019
The Wind Under Wings

The now-famous research of MIT professor Edward Lorenz identified a butterfly effect in nature. A small change, such as the flapping of the wings of a butterfly in Brazil, might lead to a major outcome. His finding has led us to understand that interventions of any size can contribute to greatly altered circumstances. In a similar way, 140 University of Southern Indiana students experience positive interventions each year that can dramatically alter their lives. Click article title for full PDF.

Books by AmyLu Riley

Book by AmyLu Riley
04/01/2020
Faith with Wings

When Jesus takes the temperature of AmyLu’s love for him, the result is a jarring wakeup call. But what can she do about it? Years of living unhealed have slipped subtle wedges into her relationship with God. Then she prays one simple prayer, and no one could have predicted what would happen next. God pulls back the curtain on reality, and AmyLu discovers that nothing is the way she thought. In this surprising true story, see how one simple prayer from the heart can throw open the door...

Book by AmyLu Riley
10/26/2019
Faith with Grit

“I know God can heal me, so why doesn’t he?” That one spiritual issue can cause more hurt than many physical problems combined. AmyLu Riley knows. Her own theology wasn’t reaching the depth of her pain on this very issue. She had known the answers about suffering—until she was actually living it. As years came and went without healing, a gap widened between what she believed and what she was actually experiencing. Maybe you’re facing this, too. You believe in God. You trust him. And...

Book by AmyLu Riley
06/25/2019
Stay

Wasn't it Paul who said he longed to go, but it was more necessary to stay? AmyLu wanted God to show her what she needed to accomplish in this life so she could just do it and be free to go home. But God didn’t want a transaction. He wanted a restoration. He wanted her to know his affection in a new way while she was yet in the land of the living. He wanted to restore her crushed spirit with his compassion and hold her head close to his chest, so she could hear that his very heart beats with...

Book by AmyLu Riley
03/07/2016
Jesus as Healer: Miracles and Meditations in Luke

Look Into the Face of the One Who Can Heal Anything Explore with wide-eyed wonder the greatest healing miracles of all time. Walk beside the most successful healer who ever lived, Jesus, and be transformed by his words and actions. •Find out the one thing that amazed Jesus—something you can still have today. •Uncover the only obstacle that ever got in Jesus’ way—and that might be in your way, too. •Learn Jesus’ cure for a fatal condition only he has healed—a solution that can save your...