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Full Circle”The man had tried to have me killed!” Though our clandestine night flight to Libya was one of the strangest, most dramatic and most humbling experiences of those years, it was not the height of my struggle with Jesus’ actual teachings and the extent to which I was willing and able to put them […]

Bridges Board Member, Safi Kaskas – co-translator of the Qur’an with references to the Bible As an American Muslim, I felt the tension experienced by all Americans after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet all Muslims were and still are suspects. The media put Muslims on the defense, and we are still trying to prove our innocence. […]

“The Path of Ananias”“…the most cold-hearted person in the world” Upon our arrival at our hotel in Islamabad, we were scheduled to meet with a group of Christian Pakistani women whose husbands had been imprisoned under sharia (Islamic law) on frivolous or trumped-up charges. Because it was next to impossible for women in this society […]

“To Love Thine Enemies”“Why the hell would you go to northern Sudan, Congressman?” “Why don’t you come to Sudan and meet President al-Bashir?”I have to admit, I paused before replying. Making such a trip would be quite a radical move.  To say Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir was not a popular man in the West would […]

“Miracle In The Sahara”“It is a miracle,” he said, and I had to agree. “What happened next seemed almost like a dream. We sat together and talked about the Qur’an and the Bible, about the teachings of Jesus/Isa and the real spirit of “submission” and “surrender” that was meant by the words later translated as […]

“The Other Holy Book”“And Jesus. Boy, did it talk about Jesus.” The more suras and ayat I read, the more amazed I became. The text talked about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham, Mount Sinai, Noah, Solomon and Sheba, Moses, heaven, Satan, hell, angels, end times, Judgment Day, sin, forgiveness, Zechariah, John the Baptist, […]

“The Secret Language of the Bible”“I felt my excitement growing. This was starting to make sense!” From my year of searching through the Bible after that encounter with Doug Coe, I knew that the word “convert” appears exactly ten times in the New Testament (King James version) and five times in the Old Testament. A […]

“Paradigm Crash”“This was not a paradigm shift. This was a paradigm crash.” When I came to Washington in 1981, the media dubbed me one of the biggest Jesus freaks ever elected to Congress. The reason those Christian leaders had singled me out to accompany them to the Mideast was my reputation for being such a […]