Author: Donny Ndoka

By Donny Ndoka — Iran was liberalizing too fast under the Shah: women could dress as they wanted, they had equality, they held government positions. It generated not a backlash but a jihad-lash, says Elica Le Bon, an Iranian American. The West (and President Jimmy Carter) conspired with Ali Khamenei, thinking he’d be easier to sway on oil policy, to take over Iran, Le Bon says. Then the hardline Muslims smashed their communist partners and assumed total control of Iran and got rid of Western imperialism. “My mom told me they would like throw acid in women’s faces if they…

By Donny Ndoka – While her brother was slowly dying of cancer, Paige Hanna prayed to God — and she partied, drinking until blackout and dabbling in porn. “The emptiness that I felt in my soul, just the lack for validation from other people — or from men or from social media, whatever — when I was and doing these things, there’s no comparison to the freedom I felt when I surrendered my life to the Lord in repentance,” says Paige. The mixup of her parents’ divorce combined with being introduced to sexuality by a neighbor girl when she was…

By Donny Ndoka — As an atheist, Michael Ray Lewis made horror films. He poked holes in the faith of Christians: Evolution has disproven Christianity. If there’s an all-loving God then there wouldn’t be the existence of evil in the world. I can’t believe in a God that would send me to an eternal punishment just because I have trouble believing in him. “I put forth all these objections that Christians just weren’t able to answer,” Michael says. “I gravitated towards atheism because it seemed like the most logical explanation.” Bill Mahr documentaries were the icing on the cake. They…

By Donny Ndoka — When saw the messages and images in her boyfriend’s phone, it was over — finally. For seven years, ever since she was 13, Johnna Nichelle Wilks found validation through her boyfriend. She called it quits once and forever and got on her face and sought God. “You know how they say hot girl summer?” Johnna says. “This was very much a healing girl summer for me.” Johnna Nichelle Wilks grew up spending six months with her dad in Texas and six months with her mom in Florida. She developed a chameleon identity, she says, adapting to…