What I am about to describe is a reconstruction built from my fragments and from what I was later told by people who were part…
The way you choose anything that runs counter to what your instincts are telling you and some days the choice is easy and some days…
I did not know that would be the last normal moment with my family. When it was time to leave, I kissed each of my…

I want to start by telling you something that might surprise you. If you had met me 20 years ago, if you had sat across…
There were hours of waiting in locations that felt exposed, waiting for something or someone that had been arranged and that we could only trust…

I want to start by telling you something that took me many years to fully understand. The life I am about to describe to you.…
He had come to our area for work. There was a construction or repair project of some kind that had brought him and a small…
And then he said that he had been spending a lot of time examining his own faith, not doubting it, examining it, asking himself whether…
The consciousness of being observed, of being known to the wrong people, had been present since before Elias was killed, but it had intensified significantly…
She had found things online at first, things about Christianity, about Jesus, trying to understand from the outside what it was that her daughter had…




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