historical Archives

Daughter of Rome

A Look Into the Secrets of Priscilla and Aquila Author: Tessa Afshar Priscilla has a secret and a deep regret. She also knows someone else’s secret, and that could be deadly. As the years have passed, she has found peace, even acceptance in a synagogue. It’s not the religion of her people, but somehow it seems right, it draws her. And so, she remains, an outsider, but still an integral and beloved member of the community. Meanwhile, Aquila has his own sorrows and a devastating past, but the work of a follower of Jesus is never done, and so he continues [...]

Rape of Nanking, The

An Untold Story Finally Brought to Light Author: Iris Chang After reading Pearl S. Buck’s Dragon Seed, a novelization of the Nanking Massacre from the perspective of a farmer and his close-knit household, I became curious about the massacre. Admittedly, my historical knowledge is spotty, but World War II has made it into numerous movies and fictional books and is one of the more interesting and devastating moments in our contemporary world. Yet, I’d never heard of the Nanking massacre. For the Japanese part in World War II, the stories always focus on Pearl Harbor or the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima [...]