Read: April 25, 2025
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Friday, April 25, 2025
Monday, April 21, 2025
Books Set in Asia: Iran
An American Martyr in Persia, by Reza Aslan (2024)
This book is a biography of Howard Bakersville, a young American Christian missionary from South Dakota who was sent to Persia in 1907. Ostensibly, he was there to teach English and preach the gospel. He became enraptured in the culture and soon found he was in the midst of a democratic revolution. I had never heard of this democratic revolution in Persia that occurred over 100 years ago.
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