UPDATE: GUESS WHAT, THE FILE JUST LOADED – CLICK HERE TO LISTEN NOW!

This morning I did interview Dr. Rydelnick, however all day I have tried to upload my podcast to a few different services I use, and for some reason it is not allowing the show to load. I think that it’s because my internet connection is weak on this computer, so unless I can get my file to my husband’s computer, the show won’t be up maybe for another day or two.

Thank you for your patience as we work through these technical difficulties.

Tomorrow morning at 8 AM Pacific time I will be doing an interview with Dr. Michael Rydelnick who is an expert in Middle East politics. He is currently a Professor at Moody Bible Institute and the author of the New York Times best selling book Understanding the Arab – Israeli Conflict: What the Headlines Haven’t Told You.

I will post the interview sometime near the afternoon tomorrow. Stay tuned.

If you follow my Persecution blog, then you know Christians are totally under attack in Iraq – but the untold story is that thousands and thousands are coming to faith in Jesus Christ, often through visions and dreams. I praise God for this moment of peace for Christians.

HT: Janet Parshall’s America for reading this piece on the air.

For all of my online lurkers who call yourselves an atheist, read what your fellow atheist from London has to say about God. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset
Matthew Parris

Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and The Times Christmas Appeal includes a small British charity working there. Pump Aid helps rural communities to install a simple pump, letting people keep their village wells sealed and clean. I went to see this work.

It inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. But travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I’ve been trying to banish all my life, but an observation I’ve been unable to avoid since my African childhood. It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing belief that there is no God.

Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people’s hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.

I used to avoid this truth by applauding – as you can – the practical work of mission churches in Africa. It’s a pity, I would say, that salvation is part of the package, but Christians black and white, working in Africa, do heal the sick, do teach people to read and write; and only the severest kind of secularist could see a mission hospital or school and say the world would be better without it. I would allow that if faith was needed to motivate missionaries to help, then, fine: but what counted was the help, not the faith.

Be sure to read the full article atheist buddies who are reading this.

Okay, so it’s really the second day now of that fake holiday, but I had to share this with you anyway. A few days ago I was in the store and some kid who must have been about 8 said Happy Kwanza to me…and he was a white kid….and all I could do was laugh. I didn’t have the heart to tell him it was a fake holiday. And no doubt this poor child was indoctrinated in school….

Here’s Rick’s wonderful post. Read it here.