” Ellen nodded again, slower this time, as if even that small motion exhausted her. “You’re traveling for your health, I take it,” the man…
She leaned more heavily on the cane as if standing required all her strength. I am traveling under doctor’s orders, she said, each word slow…
The woman caught up to William and grabbed his arm. Ned, stop. Look at me. William had no choice. He turned, keeping his eyes lowered…
I can see from his condition that this young man needs immediate medical attention, not bureaucratic detention. He lowered his voice but didn’t whisper, speaking…
They chose exile. In December 1850, exactly 2 years after their escape from Mon, Ellen and William boarded a ship bound for Liverpool, England. They…
what to say to the neighbors, how to explain why you are not at Friday prayers, what to tell your family when they ask questions,…
That weight was real. But I had also chosen it in the deeper sense that I could not have done otherwise and remained who I…
And I think it matters to explain it accurately because people often imagine a dramatic singular instant, a door swinging open, a man walking free.…
He served his full sentence and was released. He is no longer in Iran. He is alive and he is free and he is serving…
that God has not looked away from you through 40 years of the Islamic Republic through the executions and the imprisonments and the economic suffering…
