by Conor Sweetman | Mar 9, 2022 | Contemplation, Featured
e’d been on the mission field only six months, and we were already experiencing every missionary’s dream story: a Muslim convert. We participated in his baptism, guided his discipleship, and supported him through persecution. We had so much to write home about....
by Conor Sweetman | Dec 8, 2021 | Chronicle, Featured
Read this essay in Portuguese Leia este artigo em português n August 12, 2021, Scottish church historian and missiologist Andrew Walls died at the age of 93. He knew and understood the history and people of Africa—and he cared. Walls opened my eyes to historical...
by Conor Sweetman | Mar 9, 2022 | Contemplation, Featured
eep breaths, Beth.” I repeated the words as I stood above the hospital bed. “Deep breaths.” I had met Joseph Ndekezi 12 years earlier when my life had already profoundly changed. Experiences of trauma in my own life, as well as my PhD in Psychology, had led me to...
by Conor Sweetman | Dec 7, 2021 | Chronicle, Featured
Read this essay in Indonesian, Traditional & Simplified Chinese 閱讀本文的中文繁體和簡體版本。 | 阅读本文的中文繁体和简体版本。 Baca artikel ini dalam bahasa Indonesia t the end of my street, just a few yards beyond my apartment building, a wisp of tear gas curled around the corner of the...
by Conor Sweetman | Dec 7, 2021 | Chronicle, Featured
nita Budu stepped to the water’s edge and searched the horizon. Lake Volta is the most expansive artificial reservoir in the world. The sun had risen high and the heat was merciless, but Budu and her colleagues didn’t dare leave in search of shade. They had lost...
by Conor Sweetman | Dec 8, 2021 | Contemplation, Featured
Read this Essay in SpanishLee este ensayo en español nto the moonless night of the desert outside the Chilean town of San Pedro de Atacama, our party of eight excitedly clambered out of the car. In the daytime, Valle de la Luna (Valley of the Moon) exhibits barren,...
