What do Arab Spring revolutionaries and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? It turns out, a lot more than I thought. According to my friend, Zainab Al-Suwaij of the American Islamic Congress, King's “Montgomery Method” became the mass-distributed playbook for young activists throughout the Middle East and North Africa and [...]
A Sudanese judge convicted Mariam Yahya Ibrahim of apostasy and offered the eight-months pregnant mother three days to abandon her Christian faith and “return” to Islam (she was born to a Christian mother and a long-absent Muslim father). The judge also revoked her marriage, convicted her of adultery for marrying a [...]
Many of our grantees are involved in developing Christian leaders. Many of these leaders oversee organizations with staff largely from the majority faith of their country (where Christians are usually a religious minority). How can a Gospel witness occur in such a workplace context? In this piece written by one of First Fruit's founders, Peter Ochs, he draws [...]
Large populations in the Majority World have experienced mass trauma due to war, natural disaster, and other catastrophic events. This article, published in the Lausanne Global Analysis, was borne out of reflections from four recent trips (2009-13) to two such countries -- Sudan and South Sudan. The Crisis in South Sudan has [...]