January 2008 By Jerry Dykstra From Baghdad to Northern Iraq: An Interview with an IDP The following is an interview with Nazani, an Internally Displaced Person (IDP) living in northern Iraq. The only furnishings in her lounge are a carpet and a small television. The kitchen contains a small table, four plastic chairs, a cooker, […]
January 2008 By Terence Ascott and David Harder In the Middle East and North Africa, modern media is critically important to the existence of the Church. Wherever he or she may live today, every Christian can trace his or her spiritual roots to the Middle East, to the land where the Church was birthed. […]
January 2008 By Dana Ryan Child mothers in Uganda who escape from the Lord’s Resistance Army continue to suffer even after they obtain freedom. A 19-year war in northern Uganda, initiated by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) against the government of Uganda, has subjected its people to brutality and violence beyond imagination. Joseph Kony, the […]
January 2008 By Phill Butler Long steeped in print-based systems, you can imagine my surprise when Jim Bowman approached us and asked, “Can you folks help us develop an oral partnership training course?” It was about seven or eight years ago. Somewhat wide-eyed, I was talking with Jim Bowman, who, along with his wife […]
January 2008 By The Rev. Canon Andrew White Here, in one of the most dangerous places in the world, the gospel is simple: we love God because he first loved us. We had lunch with one of the Archbishops in Baghdad last week to talk about the struggle Christians in Iraq have and the […]
