November 24, 2014 He was just a little kid, maybe nine years old, no more. You might have seen him on television. He stood facing the camera, raised a skinny arm and his childish voice and recited an Arabic slogan he had memorized, something to the effect that what they have done in Iraq they […]
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November 4, 2014 The following essay is really a letter written to my husband, Wayne, by Tim Smith, who was a missionary kid in the Middle East when we were there. I like what he said and can’t say it better. FF ****** I have been mulling over ISIL for a while and finally […]
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October 10, 2014 So long as there is evil in the world, there will be bad people who claim to be Muslims and bad people who claim to be Christians. Nevertheless there will be religious and social principals that caution us against maligning either as a group. Though I believe in these and in lots […]
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September 11, 2014 Thirteen years ago today I disintegrated in a way that surprised me and some other people. Even today I am reluctant to tell what happened (to the extent I even know), not because I am ashamed but because anything I suffered is trivial compared to the experience of those who had loved […]
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August 12, 2014 In the middle of my morning prayers, while mentioning to God the major concerns of the world and my family, I prayed for a little girl whose face I had seen on CNN. She was one of 30 or so people who had clambered aboard a helicopter on Mt. Sinjar, most of […]
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