PERSECUTION
It will be the 220th anniversary come this New Years Day of Thomas Jefferson’s response from the White House to the letter he had received from the Danbury Baptists expressing their concern about the protection of religion liberty in America. Conventional wisdom holds that there are only two possible views about Jefferson’s famous letter and it’s…
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Consider Paul the Apostle. In a work in which numerous characters stand out — Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Samson, Gideon, among many others — his name, exceeded only by that of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, rises above all the others. Two millennia after his four missionary journeys had spread Christianity far and wide in…
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On Pentecost Sunday in Abuja, Nigeria, four gunmen stormed a Catholic Church during mass, massacring at least 50 worshippers in one of the most brutal rampages of the year. As word of the attack spread, so, too, did outrage that the violence in this African nation continues on. While Christians have been routinely targeted by Nigeria’s…
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