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Arabic, A Christian Language

Onsi A. Kamel

To whom does a language belong? One might think it the possession of all who speak it. But as anyone who has learned a foreign language can attest, one...

Catholicism Made Me Protestant

Onsi A. Kamel

Like all accounts of God’s faithfulness, mine begins with a genealogy. In the late seventeenth century, my mother’s Congregationalist ancestors journeyed to the New World to escape what they...