Author: Aloma Arias

By Aloma Arias – In the 12th attempt on his life, Umar Mulinde got acid splashed on his face. The attackers shouted “Allahu akbar.” Converted from Islam, Mulinde was a pastor in Uganda. “Acid causes the skin tissue to melt, often exposing the bones below the flesh, sometimes even dissolving them,” Umar explains. “It was on Dec. 24, 2011, as I was walking out of my church in Kampala, I was going to enter the car, people came and poured acid on my face.” He survived the attack, thanks to reconstructive surgeries in Israel, and continues to minister in Uganda…

By Aloma Arias – As growing numbers of people “hate” reading, Christian creatives are designing ways to entice them into the Bible. There’s the Action Bible, which brings the great narratives to life via full color manga, has sold 4 million copies. “It’s a very inviting Bible,” says Brock Eastman, the Bible’s project director. “We’re bringing the bible to life in a different way for this generation specifically. There’s a narrative, like a paraphrase, of the Bible story that’s easy to understand and sounds like a conversation.” Then too, there’s a Bible video game currently under development called Gate Zero…