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Arman’s Freedom Study Companion
LINK TO FREE DOWNLOAD BELOW! The writing of Arman’s Freedom included a consistent struggle between artist and missiologist. There are many lessons that I wanted to use the book to teach, but whenever I felt like an obvious lesson would compromise the readability and enjoyment of the story, I chose art. And I don’t regret…
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Eustace Scrubb and the Iranian New Year
Missionaries faced with the task of explaining the gospel to people in radically different contexts have often found bridges embedded within the culture itself. Don Richardson became known for the book, Peace Child, in which he recounts being a missionary in New Guinea wrestling with how to share the gospel with tribes who are perpetually…
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Two Centuries of Student Missions Movements: The Haystack Connection
Beginning at the “Haystack Prayer Meeting” with students from Williams College, there has been a continuous stream of student mission movements that have raised up prayer warriors, organizers, missionaries, and an incredible amount of enthusiasm for sharing Christ to all the nations. In fact, there are clear and tangible links that can be traced from…
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Christmas: Joy, Depression, and the New Creation
I have long understood that the Christmas season, so full of joy and hope, also so full of depression and despair, represented in our culture a sort of hope of Heaven. We speak of joy and celebrate life together and, indeed, we often experience joy during this season. We also portray a collective vision of…
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Resistance
The death of Mahsa Amini has intensified things to a new level, but the resentment over the forced hijab in Iran isn’t new. It began as soon as the current government came into power after the 1979 revolution. Many of the protesters during the revolution just wanted freedom from the oppression of the Shah, not…
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Man on the Moon
What would you do if the political movement you are supportive of suddenly insists that they saw their leader’s face on the moon? And what if questioning it meant that you suddenly weren’t a “true believer?” In Tehran Blues, Kaveh Basmenji talks about an incident that happened during the Iranian Revolution. ‘How could you not…
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Arman’s Freedom Introduction
This book was born out of a dream and a fourteen-year-old girlembarking on a novel. The Dream: This began with a conversation I had with a youngIranian many years ago about what had happened to him over theweekend. It was a dream that ultimately convicted him of sin andalso included enough about Jesus to make…
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Afghanistan: Is There Any Hope?
Like everyone else, I watched the images of Afghans clinging to a military plane and grieved. Like everyone else, I asked the questions: What does this mean for Christians, women, those who helped U.S. troops and so many other people who are now vulnerable to the rule of the Taliban? How does this affect the…
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Mission in the Midst of a Global Pornography Epidemic: A Three-Dimensional Approach for Addicits
This article was originally published in the Great Commission Research Journal in the Fall of 2019 Abstract This article discusses the problem of pornography from a missiological perspective, especially concerning the contexts of Guilt/Innocence, Shame/Honor, and Fear/Power. The scope of the global problem is explained as well as specific issues related to the problem in…
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A Greater Story
My favorite feature of my grandfather’s house in the East Lake section of Birmingham, Alabama was his upstairs closet. It tunneled from a master bedroom and emptied into a stairwell. When the adults weren’t looking, we’d wade through the clothes, boxes, and a small Christmas tree to find our way to the other side. What…
David Parks 