decades of communist oppression of believers? The professional researcher in me wanted to discover simple, practical, measurable, and objective answers to that question. But I wasn’t only a professional researcher. I was also a still-grieving father. I was a wounded would-be healer. I was a failed relief worker who had so helplessly watched thousands of starving people die. My objectivity was hard to maintain. Often, in interviews, I would simply blurt out: “How did you (or your family, or your church, or your people) learn to live like this? How did you learn to die like that?” One of the
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