It is hard to escape a sickening thought about the hell going on in Darfur – that one day Jesus will judge us for what we did and did not do to help. Question that? Read what he had to say in Matthew’s 25th chapter. What kind of hell in Darfur? Read this story – really read it. Don’t avert your eyes. Don’t think of these women as “Africans” – as people somehow different from our neighbors or sisters or wives. Don’t put any distance between yourself and the story. And then? You will probably feel rage and then helplessness but there are things that can be done – simple things.

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