The Sunday Dispatch
Five stories about faith and culture you probably missed this week — delivered every Sunday morning.
- Son of Sam meets the Son of God
- 69 cents for New Testament brought Muslim to Jesus
- Expelled from village in Laos for faith in Jesus
- Hubble’s discoveries disarmed atheist scientists
- Donnie McClurkin: Out of a dark past, into the spotlight
- Statue of pharaoh from Moses’ time found
- SHOCKER: Swedish youth turn from parents’ secularism
- Child marriages abound in Germany. Guess who?
Author: Eden Garcia
By Eden Garcia — An Egyptian farmer was plowing his field, when clink the shear hit something solid. As he dug, it turned out to not be an annoying rock. It was a stature head of the pharaoh who faced off with Moses in the Bible. Ramses II is carved into the 5-foot-tall head unearthed Behbeit El Hagar, in Gharbia province, by archaeologists when the farmer alerted the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt of the accidentally discovery, the Egyptian Gazette reported. The head likely belonged to a 27-foot tall statue of the once king of Upper and Lower Egypt.…
By Eden Garcia — When Muslim immigrants come to the West, they bring their faith with them. No problem. We honor freedom of religion. But what if their religion includes child marriage? New data from the German state of Baden-Württemberg reveals that 358 marriages since April 2012 involve a underage girl (almost always its a girl). One of the girls was aged 11. Islam permits marriage of girls aged 9 since the prophet consummated his marriage to Aisha when she was 9. The hadith says she married at age 6 and brought her dolls and play things with her. Mohammad…
By Eden Garcia — Two years ago, Muslim radicals torched the house of Bangladeshi pastor Tapan Sarkar. He rebuilt and now is reaching hundreds of kids with the Gospel. “We had the opportunity to reconstruct — or rather, renovate — thanksto the love and prayers of our fellow believers,” his wife, Rupali, texted via WhatsApp. “God spoke to the hearts of my brothers and sisters to build a church building. Through their love and prayers, we were able to rebuild again.” Amid widespread protests and vandalism in 2024, Islamists — believed to be BNP Jamaat-e-Islami — struck their humble home…
By Eden Garcia — At the moment Brittni De La Mora read in the Bible Revelations 2:20-23, she realized she HAD TO GET OUT OF THE P*RN INDUSTRY. Nevertheless, I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into s3xual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they…
By Eden Garcia — A pastor on a motorcycle with his son traveling to Sunday morning service in Nigeria was gunned down by Fulani Muslims Sept. 20, just hours after five Christians were killed as they left a market just five miles away in Plateau State. “The first thing that came to my mind was the time has come for me to pay the price,” said Christian reporter Masara Kim who was shot at when he reported to the scene. “Just like Jesus did, I am way overqualified to die. Jesus completed his mission on earth at the age of…
By Eden Garcia — Jill Hilliard* was a state softball champion, straight-A student in high school from a home where they didn’t even have alcohol. But when she went to college, she was using drugs and hooked up with a drug dealer forging checks to score money for drugs. “When I moved in with him, I realized that he was a full-blown drug dealer,” Jill says. “He was selling cocaine. He was selling ecstasy. He was doing all the things. And for a while, I was still going to college. And I started using harder drugs.” She got pregnant through…
By Eden Garcia — Without irony, a Muslim man, Mohammed Hijab, wrote a book about feminism. In Fifth-Wave Feminism, the influencer meant to elucidate from the Muslim perspective but inadvertently demonstrated a major flaw of Islam: men tell women what to think, do and feel. As a result of the unfair treatment women get in Islam, hundreds of thousands are quietly quitting the religion that lets a man marry four wives, urges a husband to beat his spouse and rewards men with 72 virgins in Paradise to eternally copulate while not specifying anything for women in Heaven. “We hear apologists…
By Eden Garcia — Hayden couldn’t go to sleep. “I was carrying for a long time this guilt and shame,” Hayden says. “It would keep me up at night. I had done such a terrible thing. Even though he knew it was wrong because he received Jesus at age 7, Hayden agreed with his girlfriend to have an abortion. “Neither one of us were financially fit for that and it’s not what we wanted,” Hayden said. “And we ended up deciding to have an abortion.” He walked away from God starting in middle school and got into partying, drugs, alcohol…

