In our text, John the Baptist loses his head. Today, persecution of Christians is still very much a reality. But, is religious persecution something we face in the United States?
We start with a story. Not a short illustration or anecdote, but a story.
We want to interest you in Dorothy.
At first look, 74-year-old nun Dorothy Stang didn't look like the typical kind of person who would have a contract out on her life. She was short with grandmotherly gray hair and glasses that slipped down her nose in the heat. She didn't carry a weapon. She read her Bible faithfully. She was known as "Sister Dorothy" or "Dot" to her many friends. No, Dorothy didn't look like the kind of person who would be a threat to anyone -- that is, until she spoke.
Sister Dorothy was from Dayton, Ohio, and as a young woman joined the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Cincinnati -- an order of nuns whose mission is "to take our stand with poor people, especially women and children, in the most abandoned places." Dorothy soon found herself in one of the most abandoned and remote places in the world, 30 miles out in the jungle away from the closest small town of Anapu in the Para region of...
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