A Challenge to the Christian Century

Frances Fuller, Author Of Book About Lebanon, ‘In Borrowed Houses’, Issues Challenge To Christian Century Magazine Frances Fuller’s award-winning memoir, ‘In Borrowed Houses’, gives readers a penetrating glimpse of the Middle East from the inside. She puts a face on the Middle East many Americans have not yet seen. Fuller believes a recent article in […]

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A Message to Franklin Graham

A few days ago I read in a Huffington Post article by Qasim Rashid that Franklin Graham had put these words on his facebook page: “We are under attack by Muslims at home and abroad. We should stop all immigration of Muslims to the U.S. until this threat with Islam has been settled. Every Muslim […]

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Egyptian Christian Martyrs

I am sharing with you an English translation of a poem written for and published in a tract from the Egyptian Bible Society. It will help readers see the heart of our Christian comrades in Egypt. Two rows of men walked the shore of the sea, On a day when the world’s tears would run […]

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ISIS Is Testing My Resolve

February 4, 2015 ISIS is testing my resolve. I determined a long time ago to see everyone as part of the human race. Some people are different and hard to understand; some are mean spirited; some are thieves; some are murderers; some seem to lack all empathy with others; some are devious liars; some are […]

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Let the Children Be Children

November 24, 2014 He was just a little kid, maybe nine years old, no more. You might have seen him on television. He stood facing the camera, raised a skinny arm and his childish voice and recited an Arabic slogan he had memorized, something to the effect that what they have done in Iraq they […]

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Why ISIS Will Never Die (A Guest Blog)

November 4, 2014 The following essay is really a letter written to my husband, Wayne, by Tim Smith, who was a missionary kid in the Middle East when we were there.  I like what he said and can’t say it better.   FF ****** I have been mulling over ISIL for a while and finally […]

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Why I Can’t Be Silent

October 10, 2014 So long as there is evil in the world, there will be bad people who claim to be Muslims and bad people who claim to be Christians. Nevertheless there will be religious and social principals that caution us against maligning either as a group. Though I believe in these and in lots […]

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The Little Girl on the Helicopter

August 12, 2014 In the middle of my morning prayers, while mentioning to God the major concerns of the world and my family, I prayed for a little girl whose face I had seen on CNN. She was one of 30 or so people who had clambered aboard a helicopter on Mt. Sinjar, most of […]

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