I looked at the faces around me one more time. These were my people, my responsibility, my family in Christ. And I had led them…

My hands still shake when I think about that moment in Mecca. Not from fear anymore, not from confusion, but from overwhelming gratitude that God…
But in that moment, flying toward Mecca, I was completely blissfully unaware of what was coming. I was just a young Muslim man following his…
I repeated the prayers I knew by heart, the Arabic words flowing automatically from my lips. But something felt wrong. Not physically wrong, exactly. Something…
He examined me, testing my reflexes and cognitive function. Everything normal. He ordered an EEEG and an MRI. I had to scrape together money for…
I have learned that God is present in the darkest places. That he was with Sang Min on that execution stage. That he is with…
She would tell me stories about my grandfather, about how he had prayed for this day, prayed that one day there would be a real…
They were looking at me differently, not with anger anymore, but with something closer to fear. The leader, the man who had been so confident…
I thought about my father’s words shortly before he died. Don’t let the light go out. I had tried to keep it burning in this…
Sometimes I still can’t believe I’m alive. I’ll be doing something ordinary. Making breakfast. playing with Dawood, who is now a bright, active six-year-old, helping…





