Author: Keziah Mendez

By Keziah Mendez — When Priya was a young girl, she asked her mother, “Who is God?” “Priya, we live in a country with so many idols,” her mother said. “You can just pick one” A lot of the Hindu idols had animal heads, and she wasn’t attracted to them. Priya chose this man with long hair who she thought was good looking. “But in my head, I also had this imaginary God, who was just like Santa Claus who was just, kind and gentle,” she recalls. “Everything that I thought was just amazing was God to me.” She had…

By Keziah Mendez — John James was the frontman for the Newsboys for 12 years, but success exposed the cracks in his life that came from a childhood of rejection under an alcoholic father. He fell into flirting online, then unfaithfulness and ultimately he was forced out of the band. “My whole sense of value, of identity was totally wrapped up in who I was with the Newsboys,” he says “and that meant more to me than my marriage. As long as I was with the Newsboys, I’m somebody, I have a purpose, I have a future, I have a…