Imagine the shock Abraham must have felt when God ordered him to sacrifice his son, who was the very fulfillment of what God had promised him. He had waited for a quarter-century for Isaac to be born, and now he was to kill him? To make matters wo...

“I had no idea it would be this hard,” I told my friend as I quickly wiped my wet cheeks. The first months of being on the field seemed to crush me. I’d been warned that culture shock was, well, shocking, but my! It was so tough.