The Intersection of Faith and Culture
A day ago, the world rejoiced as a Sudanese woman Meriam Yehya Ibrahim — jailed for her faith — was released by the Sudanese government. Sudan is an Islamic state, where conversion from Islam is a crime deserving of execution. Ibrahim’s death sentence was found to be faulty, leading to […]
Becoming Wise as Serpents Recently Leadership Journal published “My Easy Trip From Youth Minister to Felon.” The anonymous author is a convicted felon who will be on the sex offender registry for life due to his sexual abuse and statutory rape of one of the youths under his leadership. But […]
Charlene Jacobs’ shoulders shake as she covers her face in her hands. Her plain gold wedding band clinks against her glasses as she moves to collect herself. “After how many years, the pain still surfaces,” she says, her round brown eyes glistening as she sits across the table from me. […]
On the evening of April 14th nearly 300 teenage girls were abducted from their boarding school in the small farming community of Chabok in Northeastern Nigeria. These were young girls in pursuit of an education, in pursuit of making a life for themselves, and in pursuit of their dreams to […]
Dan, 38, muses under a large gum tree in Uganda’s green countryside. “When I was 16, there was only one jacket in my village. One jacket to be shared by maybe 50 guys. If anyone had a date they would all wear that same jacket.” He laughs at the memory. […]
When you come from a place that’s all about connection — like having unlimited access to the Internet through the smartphone in your pocket — it is quite the shock to move to a place that is so decidedly remote. When we first arrived in Ethiopia, we felt alone and […]