Nigerian pastor and humanitarian Gideon Agwom Mutum received a handwritten death threat July 12 amid ongoing violence in the country’s southern Kaduna State. Daily armed assaults in the area following the July 5 kidnapping of dozens of students from a Baptist school have left 33 people dead, 215 homes destroyed and four churches burned to the ground, according to a statement by Relief and Intervention Committee of the Southern Kaduna People’s Union.
First person: What church communicators should know about the human brain
The human brain is wired to crave novelty. Long before smartphones and streaming platforms competed for our attention, God designed our minds to scan the environment for anything new, surprising or out of place.
