At public hearing of White House religion panel, Trump rails against anti-Christian bias

In a speech on religious liberty given at the Museum of the Bible on Monday (Sept. 8), President Donald Trump vowed his administration would combat “anti-Christian bias,” spurring cheers from the crowd at an event that was almost entirely focused on Christianity.

“There is a tremendous anti-Christian bias,” said Trump at a public hearing of the White House Religious Liberty Commission, created by executive order in May. “We don’t hear about it. You hear about antisemitic, but you don’t hear about anti-Christian. They have a strong anti-Christian bias, but we’re ending that rapidly, I will tell you — we’re in a much different world today than we were one year ago.”

The crowd, which included members of several faiths, but where conservative Christians were heavily represented, roared its approval.

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And finally, From well driller to global fixer: Ken Isaacs' four decades at Samaritan's Purse

For nearly four decades, Ken Isaacs has led the disaster relief efforts for Samaritan’s Purse across the world, earning a reputation as a swashbuckling Christian fixer ready to swoop in to any global hotspot to orchestrate the delivery of aid.

Now Isaacs has written a memoir of his travels to the ends of the earth to help alleviate emergencies, among them the Rwandan genocide, the Haiti earthquake, the Japanese tsunami, the Sudanese civil war or the Liberian Ebola outbreak.

In “Running to the Fire: Helping in Jesus’ Name,” Isaacs recounts his humble beginnings as a North Carolina well driller and his hiring by Franklin Graham, the head of Samaritan’s Purse, to help oversee a well-drilling project that an Ethiopian church was undertaking. Isaacs, who was raised as a Baptist and began drilling wells for his wife’s family business, recalls a mission trip he took to Togo as a lay person and how, while there, he felt “called to the world.”

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