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Read Baktar for Halloween! One of my books is a kind of crazy story within a story about a black cat called Tar who actually turns out to be more than just a cat. And it’s also about Baktar, ancestor of Tar, who lived among the ancient Incas. Baktar, A Tale From the Andes makes Read More

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Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Thanks to my friend Dana who read this book and told me how great it was, I waited until this summer and dived in myself. The book is Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas. Metaxas, by the way, is also the author of Amazing Grace which was made into a movie in 2006. Bonhoeffer proved Read More

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Awakening among Iranians in Germany According to a recent online article from Christianity Today by Matthias Pankau and Uwe Siemon-Netto, “The Other Iranian Revolution,” there is a recent and vibrant Christian awakening–a wonderful movement of the Spirit–going on today among Iranian immigrants who are living in Germany.  The article places “the genesis of the Persian Read More

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