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.
Book review: Tippet’s ‘Smile of God in a Hostile World’
Nobody likes being rejected. Most people fear rejection. Most of us have been rejected: by other kids at school, by a friend, parent, spouse, coworker, by life. Southern Baptist Evangelist Sammy Tippit tackles that subject in his newest book, “The Smile of God In a Hostile World.”
