The Question That Will Not Go Away We have seen what men did to keep the Bible from the people. We have seen Hus burned alive, Tyndale strangled, entire Christian communities erased over six centuries of empire. Now we must ask the hardest question of all. Why don’t we read it? Not the persecuted believer… Continue reading Why Don’t We Read the Bible?
Author: Angela
While the Church Slept, the Storm Came
The Ottoman Empire, 600 years of darkness, and the erasure of God’s people A World We Have Forgotten Before we speak of empires and conquest, we must first see what was there before. In the 7th century, the Middle East was not empty. It was home to some of the oldest, most deeply rooted Christian… Continue reading While the Church Slept, the Storm Came
God Never Sealed the Bible. Men Did.
A System Built on Ignorance For centuries, the only sanctioned Bible in the Western Church was the Latin Vulgate — a translation produced in the 4th century, in a language that had long since ceased to be spoken by ordinary people. Farmers, mothers, merchants, craftsmen — none of them could read it. None of them… Continue reading God Never Sealed the Bible. Men Did.
Give First — A Story About Trust and Abundance at the Edge of Death
Three thousand years ago, a woman bent down to pick up firewood. Not for warmth. For her last meal. Her jar held only a handful of flour. Her jug, only a little oil. After she and her son ate this meal, they would wait to die. This wasn’t metaphor, wasn’t self-pity — it was literal.… Continue reading Give First — A Story About Trust and Abundance at the Edge of Death