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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…

I want to start by saying something that might surprise people. I was not always a Christian. I was not born into a Christian family.…
But the God I have served in the dark for two decades did not bring the Iranian church through 47 years of K&A Iran to…
They come from the actual undecorated interior of people’s lives and they go up with the particular weight of prayers that know they cannot afford…
He told me my children’s school enrollment could be affected by my choices in this room. He said these things quietly the way you state…
I did not understand everything he said, but I understood that whatever he had, whatever was making him speak with that kind of aliveness, I…





