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2017-09-11T22:12:11-05:00

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The One Who Makes Us Tremble

Last updated on: September 11, 2017 at 10:12 pm By Eva Petross

When Russell and I first moved to North Africa we lived in a big green safari tent on a treeless plot at the base of a rocky hill. The government had insisted that all foreigners live on the far side of town, so after sunset, when all the women had carried their last load of firewood home for the night and all the little boys had ushered their father’s goats back into their pens, nights at our home were deep,... Read more

2017-09-04T23:19:10-05:00

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Claiming Blindness

Last updated on: September 4, 2017 at 11:19 pm By Eva Petross

So, you know things are bad when you have spent the last few years living in a place tucked neatly between two bloody civil wars raging largely along racial and tribal lines, and you come back for a visit and find yourself gob-smacked by the racism in your own country. I’m a white person, and a white person who has spent most of her life living outside of the United States, so perhaps I am ill-postured to have thoughtful input... Read more

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2017-08-28T23:48:09-05:00

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A More Courageous Road

Last updated on: August 28, 2017 at 11:48 pm By Eva Petross

Home Assignment is hard y’all. We have been back in the States for a couple of months now, and as truly wonderful as it has been, I’m really looking forward to returning to the other side of the world. And it’s not because I am just travel-weary and romanticizing the place that I have been away from long enough to have forgotten about all the ants in my kitchen cabinets. (Missionaries who complain about America and how much they can’t... Read more

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2017-08-22T10:11:16-05:00

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Christians Make the Best Atheists

Last updated on: August 22, 2017 at 10:11 am By Jonathan Storment

Only a Christian can be a good atheist. -Jurgen Moltmann So this past month, I had the privilege of getting to go to Greece with my preaching friend Luke Norsworthy to get ready for a Fall sermon series we are doing together called “Christians Make the Best Atheists” We took a couple of Go-Pro’s and hiked over 40 miles in just a few short days to go all over Greece filming at the ancient Pagan temples and did some research in... Read more

2017-08-14T22:36:15-05:00

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Charlottesville, the Church, and Our Self-Deceit

Last updated on: August 14, 2017 at 10:36 pm By Jonathan Storment

Nobody thinks they’re a racist. Have you ever noticed that? In the social media bubbles of our own making, the echo chambers of our design we can safely assume that we are able to love everyone. Even some of the people who marched under Nazi flags chanting “You will not replace us” this weekend, when their identity was outed online wanted to make sure the world knew “I’m not the angry racist I appear to be in those pictures.” And while that... Read more

2017-08-08T07:53:31-05:00

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FAQs: “How Do You Do It? (I Never Could…)”

Last updated on: August 8, 2017 at 7:53 am By Eva Petross

I distinctly remember long, slow runs around the Abilene Christian University campus around eleven o’clock at night when I was twenty years old. They were the kind of runs you take on a break from a research paper or because your roommate’s boyfriend is still over or because you slept until noon and you’re not tired yet. The kind of quiet runs that tend to drift into prayer. Not well-articulated or particularly deep prayers, but – as your blood is... Read more

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2017-08-01T07:42:23-05:00

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FAQs “Why are Muslims Killing Christians Over There?”

Last updated on: August 1, 2017 at 7:42 am By Eva Petross

“So why are Muslims killing Christians over there?” Usually right after I am asked this question I feel my husband politely squeeze my elbow in a gentle reminder that I would do well to try and not permanently offend the kindly elder at a church that helps financially support our work with the more pointed edges of my geo-political opinions. Because he knows that somewhere deep inside I am tempted to respond with a terse “They’re not,” and then head... Read more

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2017-07-24T20:28:01-05:00

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FAQs: “So Are You Teaching Them English?”

Last updated on: July 24, 2017 at 8:28 pm By Eva Petross

“So are you teaching them all English?” Maybe people ask this from time to time because the whole Bible-translation-for-people-who-speak-unwritten-languages gig can be a bit confusing. Why not teach people English so they can read the Bible in a language that already has scripture translated? Surely that’s simpler than developing a whole orthography for a language that has never been written down, a full blown literacy program to teach people to read the language they speak, and then translating the entire... Read more

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2017-07-17T16:20:04-05:00

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FAQs: But Are You Safe?

Last updated on: July 17, 2017 at 4:20 pm By Eva Petross

My family is back in the States this summer on our home assignment that comes every two or three years. It’s been a sweet time of reconnecting with family, friends and church partners that we love and miss terribly when we are in North Africa. It’s been fun to introduce our girls to American culture and see their amazement over things like water fountains and traffic lights and hear the things that strike them as unusual (“Mama, why are there... Read more

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2017-07-10T18:19:43-05:00

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Introducing Eva Petross

Last updated on: July 10, 2017 at 6:19 pm By Jonathan Storment

So I’m very excited to make an announcement that has been a few months in the progress. I’ve asked a long-time friend of mine to become a regular contributor and partner to this blog. Her name is Eva Petross…kind of. It’s a Pseudonym. And in order to explain why she needs to write under a pseudonym I will also be explaining the reasons for why I’ve asked her to write regularly here. Eva and her husband and children are missionaries in... Read more

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