Nearly three million Americans are Muslims, and many of them will be fasting from sun up to sun down from June 18 – July 17, 2015. Because the dates of Ramadan are based on a lunar calendar, they vary each year, coming a few days sooner than the previous year’s observance. Not all...
As a young believer, one of the thinkers I most admired was Francis Schaeffer. His books had a great influence on me, and I was especially impressed by his wife’s book, L’abri, in which she told how they opened their home and study center in the Swiss Alps to one and all, expected or...
Sometime in early 2005, I was sitting in my office when the phone rang. I carelessly picked it up, expecting it to be a salespitch or robo-call, but it was Wellington Mutiso calling from Kenya! Instantly, I was fully attentive, but his words brought me up short. He said...
I was working at my desk when the phone rang. It was Pat, Marta’s best friend from Guatemala, nearly hysterical. She said, “You have to do something! If you don’t do something, Marta is going to die!” I knew that I, personally, couldn’t solve Marta’s health...