A photo of Christian schoolgirl Leah Sharibu s family in Nigeria in this September 2018 video. | (Screenshot: YouTube/International Christian Concern)
According to Boko Haram (or, as it calls itself, the Islamic State West African Province), Sharibu refused to convert to Islam, their precondition for her release. A few months later, Boko Haram announced that Sharibu and Alice Loksha Ngaddah, a Christian nurse kidnapped in March 2018, would be enslaved for life.
The last time the world heard from Leah, she begged to be “treated with compassion” and asked “the government, particularly the president, to pity me and get me out of this serious situation.” Three years later, Leah remains a prisoner, a “captive for Christ.”
Smoke rises near a demonstrator holding a sign and facing a row of police near the 5th police precinct during a demonstration to call for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, on May 30, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Clashes broke out and major cities imposed curfews as America began another night of unrest Saturday. | AFP via Getty Images/KEREM YUCEL
Michael Agapito’s recent book review at ChristianityToday.com vividly illustrates one of the challenges Christians face when trying to apply their faith to issues of injustice. After praising much about Thaddeus Williams’ new book
Role of family is not to make you happy
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Role of family is not to make you happy
Role of family is not to make you happy
Earlier this month, in a piece for
The Atlantic, Joshua Coleman describedan epidemic that’s not COVID but that’s also afflicting America: family estrangement. As a psychologist who specializes in family therapy, Coleman reports that his practice is flooded with older parents mourning the loss of contact with their grown children and with grown children angry and hurt by conflict with parents. “The rules of family life have changed,” he said.
My Octopus Teacher and the God-shaped hole in every human heart
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exactly a nature documentary, nor is it
strictly narrative storytelling, and the title is strange enough by itself. Still, this movie by documentary filmmaker Craig Foster has garnered glowing reviews and has become extremely popular on social media.
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