by Admin | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog
Astray in my homeland, estranged, I cry. My voice isn’t heard by those passing by, Echoing hungry, blighted country folk Who’ve come to live on their worries and sighs. The Lebanese are dispossessed, not by an occupying state or a foreign enemy, but by their own...
by Admin | Jul 9, 2021 | Blog
During a recent visit to Egypt, I found that the debate over the building of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was intense. Ethiopia’s hydroelectric power plant on the historic Nile River threatens the water availability for populations downstream in Sudan...
by Admin | Jul 6, 2021 | Blog
Before the war, we were living on a farm in the western Homs province. We had a humble house, in which we lived a safe and happy life. We had everything we needed thanks to our work in the fields. Our area was soon targeted by shells after the beginning of the war....
by Admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
“I recently received several calls from my children’s school and did not answer. I wanted to avoid embarrassment in case they were calling about my children’s tuition payments. When I didn’t answer they ended up sending me a message via email describing the actual...
by Admin | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog
Being apocalyptic literature, Revelation contains symbols and numbers. It is crucial to understand that these must have been intelligible for the church of the first century (John clearly says in 1:4 and 1:11 that he is writing to first-century churches in Asia...
by Admin | Jun 22, 2021 | Blog
As SKILD enters its tenth year of ministry, we are proud of parents who defied their community, took a stand against its shame and honor culture, and fought for their children to be recognized as an integral part of society. By Daniella Daou Continue...
by Admin | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a Christian in Lebanon? In this video, Daniella Daou, SKILD’s Partner Relations Coordinator, tells us what it is like to be a Christian in the midst of a unique and diverse consociational system. Watch...
by Admin | Jun 15, 2021 | Blog
In this video, Betty Maarari, coordinator of SKILD’s Parent2Parent support group, shares with listeners the importance of protecting the powerless and of giving honor to the weaker parts, since we are all a part of one body. Watch this video for...
by Admin | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog
In an interview with Time magazine in 1963, Karl Barth recalled advising young theologians 40 years previous “to take your Bible and take your newspaper and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.” It seems he often used variations of this figure of...
