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Terra knew that changes in life could happen the way she wanted them to happen or they could happen by surprise. During her last year at Spring Lake Middle School, Terra expected that her life would be about having fun and doing schoolwork, but life is never that simple. Friendships would be formed, secrets will be revealed, challenges would be overcome, and life lessons would be learned. Most importantly, Terra and those around her learned that that they should never stop dreaming--Purple Frogs Imagine High.

Description: How do we undergird Christian enthusiasm with Christian substance? Brief Christian Histories combines biblical and ecclesial history in a single volume, taking readers through 4000 years of our religion's history using four themes of interest: WHO has led us? HOW have we been guided ethically? WHAT have been our faith practices and pieties? WHERE have we interacted with culture, and to what effect? Reading any one chapter will give readers a feel for the Christian narrative as a whole. Reading two or more narratives will broaden readers' understanding of where we have come from--all to help understand this big religion of ours, deepen ourselves in it, and keep our faith fresh and moving forward. We move for God's New Order (basileia)--about which Jesus taught, for which he taught us to pray, and into which he invites our enthusiastic, substantive sojourning.

Completing the 5th pillar of Islam--the Hajj--is a once in a lifetime opportunity and many Muslims do not complete it. The completion of the Hajj in my second year after converting to Islam revealed my determination to be a practicing Muslim or did it? The Hajj presented me with an opportunity to see the long whispered troubles I heard about the Ummah in numerous lectures and experienced in the masjid. The troubles of Nationalism, Racism, Tribalism, and Sexism can be found in any religion. These isms that I witnessed during the Hajj and witnessing three Muslim sisters leaving the religion caused me to reevaluate my belief in Islam in the months after I returned home and it illuminated a new knowledge path that I ignored my entire life. My faith in Islam was severely tested and I revealed how in Hajj 1433: Worship, The Isms, and Aftermath.