Dr jerald dirks biography of barack
Jerald Dirks, a former Christian Minister slowly began to leave Christian belief National Day of Mourning for President Jimmy Carter.
Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Atheist and Buddhist people who have a lot of different belief; they convert into Islam....
Jerald F. Dirks, Former Minister of United Methodist Church, USA (part 4 of 4)
It was now March of 1993, and my wife and I were enjoying a five-week vacation in the Middle East.
It was also the Islamic month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from day break until sunset. Because we were so often staying with or being escorted around by family members of our Muslim friends back in the States, my wife and I had decided that we also would fast, if for no other reason than common courtesy.
Jerald Dirks.During this time, I had also started to perform the five daily prayers of Islam with my newfound, Middle Eastern, Muslim friends. After all, there was nothing in those prayers with which I could disagree.
I was a Christian, or so I said.
After all, I had been born into a Christian family, had been given a Christian upbringing, had attended church and Sunday school every Sunday as a child, had graduated from a prestigious seminary, and was an ordained minister in a large Protestant denomination.
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