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This week, Christianity Today’s Jack Panyard published a piece based on interviews with Peter and Rebekah Stafford, who are medical missionaries based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Peter contracted Ebola this spring amid a devastating Ebola outbreak. Thankfully, he’s recovered, and he’s reunited with his family after time in quarantine. Both of the Staffords work as doctors at Nyankunde Hospital, an evangelical hospital with a staff of about 100 people. |
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Health officials have tracked at least 1,048 cases of Ebola and 267 deaths from the disease in the DRC since early May. Jack notes this is the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record. And despite his Christian faith, Peter was afraid after he contracted the deadly illness: |
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"I was scared, and I didn’t handle it necessarily as well as I would have hoped," Peter said. "I had hoped that there was still some chance that it was something else, that it was the flu or maybe malaria." |
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"We had just learned with our kids these small little verses," he continued. "One was, ‘When I am afraid, I put my trust in you’ [Ps. 56:3], and that was just continuously replaying in my mind." |
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NFL tight end Juwan Johnson of the New Orleans Saints joined Benjamin Watson on The Just Life this week to discuss International Justice Mission’s work to end modern slavery, and how to pursue justice in our daily lives. |
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"I want people to look at my life and what I’m doing and say, ‘I want to do that as well,’" he said of using his influence as an athlete to advocate for justice. "Not that Juwan’s doing it, but that someone is making an effort to make justice happen." | Listen here. |
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Marvin Olasky, editor in chief: Jürgen Overhoff’s George Washington and Frederick the Great: Parallel Lives shows how two great leaders had different ethics of leadership that helped to create two different political cultures. Washington held himself accountable to Congress and saw the value of checks and balances: The US became a democratic republic. Frederick was an autocrat, and Prussia (which became the cornerstone of Germany) developed a rule-from-above polity that in the 20th century mutated into fascism. |
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Kristy Etheridge, features editor: I’m planning to buy a Tin Can phone for my 10-year-old. It’s a wifi-enabled landline that lets kids call each other without the dangers and pitfalls of smartphones. Friends who recently installed a Tin Can say it’s making phone calls fun again. |
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Athletes from the tiniest country to ever qualify for the World Cup are using their newfound visibility to pray. In a World Cup that has seen quite a few displays…
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Eleven American Pentecostal pastors sat nervously with Pope Francis at the Vatican in June 2016. The meeting, arranged by Thomas Schirrmacher, then chair of the theological commission of the World…
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The church killed Robin Hood. At least that’s how the stories go. There are a few different versions of the Early Modern English ballad "Robin Hood’s Death." In most of…
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Twenty-one years ago, I whispered a prayer that was simple to say but difficult to imagine how God would answer. My daughter, Naomi, had been born with Down syndrome and…
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Throughout Scripture, God calls his people to be faithful and steadfast as we abide in him. Isaiah reminds us our faithfulness is fleeting "like the flowers of the field," yet our hope is secure when we place it in God, so our strength is renewed (Isa. 40:6, 31). In this issue, we consider stories of resilience. Historian Thomas S. Kidd shares missionary Adoniram Judson’s hardship and fortitude in Burma (now Myanmar). Emily Belz reports on Minnesota churches today that are supporting persecuted Karen Christians, also from Myanmar. Haleluya Hadero reports on groups who are determined to help Gary, Indiana, achieve a more resilient future. We also consider Tish Harrison Warren’s new book and feature an interview with her. Rooted in the person of Jesus Christ, Christian resilience is about more than having grit or bouncing back. |
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