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Kate Goodspeed came to missionary work late. First, she was a political activist, attracting worldwide attention for a debilitating four-week hunger strike outside the White House protesting the Gulf War. When the conflict ended, she wanted to share her faith, hoping for a mission post in what she considered...
Sitting in her apartment just days after her husband's murder, Valori does not cry. Her calm and even cheery demeanor puzzles her local friends, as does her desire that Gong?who will almost certainly face a swift execution by firing squad?be spared the death penalty. "In China, widows...
But an American widow with six daughters will have a tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which...
As usual, oaths were taken on a Bible. Rev. Franklin Graham (son of Rev. Billy Graham) was repeatedly called up, as was a well-known black reverend, both of whom led Christian-oriented prayers to God and Jesus that involved the audience closing their eyes and bowing their heads in...
For myself and the other 3-7 percent of Americans who identify themselves as atheists or agnostics--even more removed from Christianity--the use of reverends in a federal service enforces the message that not believing in God is, in some sense, virtually unpatriotic. The use of religion in the...