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By: Ilse Strauss, News Bureau Chief
The pages of Scripture are crammed with the accounts of patriarchs, prophets, kings and ordinary men and women who played extraordinary roles in the unfolding of God’s plans for humanity. Courageous Esther; faithful Abraham; shepherd King David and his Moabite great-grandmother Ruth; the disciple “whom Jesus loved” (John 13:23b); Mary of Bethany with her costly perfume and tears; the list goes on. Yet despite the abundance of towering heroes of faith, hope and love, there are two in particular that continue to capture my attention as paragons of fallible humanity in the hands of an infallible God…
By: Nathan Williams, Director of Marketing and Communications
A deadly virus is on the loose in the world today. It is not a novel virus but an age-old disease that slyly simmers beneath the surface. Transmitted from one generation to the next, the symptoms and prognosis of this virus are well known. Yet from time to time, the virus is cultivated and replicated until inflamed to a full-blown pandemic. Nourished by hate and misinformation, the contagion culminates in a contamination of base, ugly violence. Anti-Semitism is the virus—and the world has once again caught the fever.
“I’m crying,” Holocaust survivor Elisabeth Merides lamented to the French news channel BFM TV recently. “I’m crying because I’m going to again feel the hatred that was there when we were kids. I don’t understand it.”
The footage of the elderly Merides, her eyes filled with tears and terror, is hard to watch. In the background, a series of Stars of David can be seen spray-painted on the exterior of her home and other Jewish residential buildings in France. Survivors of the Holocaust like Elisabeth remember all too well the final solution that eventually results from these warning signs…
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