Author: Keziah Mendez

By Keziah Mendez – The first time Sakhar Alzubaidi opened an Arabic Bible in Canada, the pages immediately began challenging everything he had believed growing up in Saudi Arabia. “I started seeing Jesus as the way he is,” said Alzubaidi, “ from the people who lived with Jesus actually and saw Jesus, not from Islamic traditions.” Raised in a devout Muslim family, Alzubaidi had only heard about Christianity through the lens of Islam, where Christians were often described as people who worshiped three gods instead of one. “Christians will worship this triune God,” he said,“ which is actually three gods,…

The following article describes SA and is meant to show the victim that there is hope and healing. By Keziah Mendez — She thought New Age was healing her from childhood traumas including rope. But when Brittany Richardson saw a tall demon sitting on the edge of her bed, who levitated her not in her sleep but awake, her confusion from her childhood in Christianity got instantly cleared up. “It grabbed a hold of my neck choking me. I hear laughter all around me. Everything was revealed to me instantly,” Brittany says. “I was being dragged to hell. I didn’t…

By Keziah Mendez — Barbara Wilder finally broke the cycle of heartbreak, and she did it by taking a small little picture of Jesus off of a gas pump that somebody had left. “When we are coming from trauma, we are very prone to seeking the same relationships in which we’re seeking chaos in our lives. It’s a cycle of going from one toxic, dysfunctional, violent relationship to another,” she says. “Taking that picture of Jesus was metaphorical because I started to go to church and Bible study after that. It was a supernatural experience.” Barbara has written a book…

By Keziah Mendez – Behind the scenes, the ex-Muslim Brotherhood adherent Ayaan Hirsi Ali was troubled enough to “drink enough alcohol to sterilize a hospital.” Having left Somalia and Islam, she embraced atheism and was celebrated as “the most important intellectual to come out of Africa.” She sat alongside the Four Horseman of the Atheist Apocalypse, they a beacon of light to former Christians, she to former Muslims. Despite being heralded as a hero, “I went through a period of crisis of fear, anxiety, depression,” Ayaan says. “I was struggling. I continued to have this big spiritual hole.” The celebrated…

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…