by Elijah Brown | Aug 21, 2018 | Opinion
Why is the feeding of the 5,000 the only miracle performed by Jesus recorded in all four Gospels? Perhaps one reason is because this miracle so clearly demonstrates that Jesus is a king who provides for the real needs of the people of the world. Scholars believe that...
by Elijah Brown | Feb 20, 2018 | Opinion
Emergency. That was the word Alberto Mamani, president of the Bolivian Baptist Union, used to describe what was beginning to unfold in Bolivia. Early last month, as part of broader legislation meant to address human trafficking, Article 88, Paragraph 11, of the new...
by Elijah Brown | Apr 3, 2017 | Opinion
Genocide continues to rumble forward in Darfur. Despite the fact that these grisly atrocities were the first in the history of the United States to be recognized as genocide while they were unfolding, today powers around the world are turning a blind eye and rolling...
by Elijah Brown | Jan 6, 2016 | Opinion
I met recently with Syrian refugees in Lebanon who are receiving help from Nabil Costa and the Lebanese Society of Educational and Societal Development. My trip was part of the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative’s support of education among the oppressed....
by Elijah Brown | Apr 21, 2015 | Opinion
Sin festers in the darkness. The same is often true in the politics of oppression. Genocide, a term first used in 1944 to describe the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group, breeds in the shadows. Torture, rape and whole scale...