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In which the Afflicted are Comforted in Ways We Cannot Guess (In Memory of Kayla Mueller)

Anita Mathias — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:04:40 +0000

Kayla Mueller, an idealistic young American aid worker, was captured by the brutal soldiers of ISIS in 2013. She died 2 years later, images of her bruised face and white-shrouded body released to her parents. Her fate would echo most people’s categories of the worst thing in the world, as in Orwell’s 1984. There are […]

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The Secret History of Hagar: When God Invisibly Comforts the Oppressed

Anita Mathias — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 19:33:38 +0000

Image: Tissot, Hagar and the Angel in the Desert Hagar, Egyptian maidservant of Sarah, has a hard life. Impregnated, basically raped by Abraham, she is bullied and persecuted by a jealous Sarah—so much so that probable death in the desert feels preferable. (Genesis 16) And in the desert, the runaway slave, with only the clothes […]

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