It was Mrs. Park. Her voice was thin and wavering, but I knew the song immediately. Amazing Grace. The hymn we had sung together in…
The official with the loudspeaker spoke again. He announced that the bodies would remain on display for 3 days as a warning. that anyone who…
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…
God stopped bullets in a basement in Yemen. And I will never stop telling the world what he did. Because he is worthy. Because his…
One more step and I would fall into something I couldn’t come back from. I tried to stop. I would delete the app, delete my…
When I was explaining a theological point or answering a question about Islamic practice, I heard Christian alternatives in my head. The gospel contradicted so…
I could fake Islamic faith publicly while remaining Christian privately. People did this in persecuted areas. They were called crypto-christians, secret believers. But even as…





