That American tourist who was murdered in Israel–I knew her! Kristine Luken. She worked for Patrick Henry College for awhile, helping us with accreditation issues. (She had previously worked for the Department of Education as a liason with colleges.) She became friends with my wife. A Jewish convert to Christianity, Kristine began to feel a strong calling to go to England to work with a ministry there involved with evangelizing Jews. That was surely a calling to her martyrdom.
Kristine was gentle, sensitive, and extremely devout. One account I read said that police were investigating if she had any sinister dealings of any kind, and I can assure them that she most certainly did not. I’d stake my life on that.
The first assumption was that she was killed by Muslim terrorists, but I’m not so sure. Judging from the detail about the Star of David necklace, recounted by another woman who survived the attack, I’m thinking it sounds like the two assailants might have been Jewish radicals who attacked her for evangelizing Jews. At any rate, I have no doubt that she was murdered for her Christian faith.
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