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Editor’s note: This post is part of a series featuring outstanding excerpts from student papers at the BibleMesh Institute, which offers affordable online training for local churches, schools, and ministries. The author’s name has been withheld for privacy and security purposes. She is preparing to serve as a missionary overseas. American Christians today live in

It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. Proverbs 25:2 (ESV) In 1849, missionary and explorer David Livingstone received the Royal Geographical Society’s gold medal. On the first of his many African expeditions, he had traveled over 600 miles across the Kalahari Desert in search of Lake

On Election Day 1922, Oregon voters passed a referendum requiring all children to attend the state’s public schools. At a stroke, all Christian and private schools were declared illegal. J. Gresham Machen, Greek scholar and professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary and Westminster Theological Seminary, saw the danger in such a statute. Without Christian schools