Memorial Day is a perfect time to commend and defend the soldiers whom we as a country have burdened with tasks risky to their bodies and souls. It goes without saying that, if our country is at war then the people on the front edge of executing that war deserve our love. This does not […]
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Did you see the evening news about the starving Syrian town? The pictures of children crying for food? The 11-year-old boy too weak to walk? The little chests with rib bones protruding? All of it is even more shocking, because while the people of Moadamiya starve to death, barrel bombs delivered by airplanes of Assad’s […]
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This blog has been written at my request by my friend, Keren Roper Willmon. Keren grow up in Jordan as the daughter of missionary doctor, John Roper. Recently she spent several weeks in Jordan, participating in ministries to Syrian refugees, some of the thousands who are living in Jordan outside of the UN camps. Some […]
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“On Sunday rain and sleet and snow fell all day and the hills around us turned white—from a few kilometers up the road, all the way to the top of Mt. Sunnin, and along the road to Damascus. Our house was oblivious to the cold.” This is the final paragraph of a tiny section called […]
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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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