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Staff from APPLE, Free the Slaves' partner in Ghana, interviews a boy who was rescued from slavery in the Lake Volta region.

From freetheslaves.com.

Art Katz's hard words for our Church in the comfort zone.

Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson face off. View the 13 minute preview here.

Kingdom math always works in an unrecognizable manner. Jesus teaches that the 1 tiny coin the poor widow puts in the offering is worth more than the Pharisees' great big offerings. If we look at the Trinity, we see that God is not 1/3 of each of the individuals, but 100% Father; 100% Word and 100% Spirit. We are actually 3 in a similar manner ("in Our image let us create him. . .") but the math works a bit differently. As Rob says, we are 100% Spiritual and 100% Physical, but there's a third reality, called our soul, the Mind, Will and Emotions, that ties those two parts together, making us completely unique in all the universe. Wow!

The Rise of al-Qaeda and The Long Road to 9/11 with Lawrence Wright In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright explains the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence breakdowns that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Wright re-creates the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of one of the most successful terrorist groups in modern history. He also follows FBI Counterterrorism Chief John O'Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States, his book provides a detailed look at daily life inside of al-Qaeda, the U.S. agents who saw the threat, and the long road to September 11th - World Affairs Council of Northern California