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It\u2019s a fascinating story and has a very personal connection for me. In the course of her journey, she wound up reading By What Authority?<\/a>, becoming perhaps the last person on planet Earth I ever dreamed would read such a book. (When I wrote it, I had in view my own tribe of suburban American Evangelicals and never in a million years would have thought it would be of use to a Turkish Muslim-cum-atheist scholar living in England.) Thanks be to God through our Lord Jesus Christ that he sees ends I cannot!<\/p>\n

On Friday, I am pleased to say, I will be interviewing Dr. Little for Connecting the Dots<\/em>. I will post the interview here when it\u2019s ready.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"