Head of Program, People on the Move BMS World Mission
Joined February 2011
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Sam Chaise retweeted
A 27 yr-old Iranian woman converted to Christianity, and had to flee Iran (where conversion brings the death penalty). She fled to the US to seek asylum. The Trump administration arrested her, put her in shackles, loaded her on a military plane with 300 other migrants...
Sam Chaise retweeted
If you lived in Syria, you would know this is such an incredible moment. Try to think of Syrians as human beings, instead of geopolitics, just for a second. Imagine how people are feeling as their disappeared loved ones are being found in prisons, alive.
Sam Chaise retweeted
For many commentators Syria is a quagmire of competing political agendas, for Syrians it is their homeland.
We don’t know how things will play out, history has taught us that much, but we can hope for the best because Syrians—like everyone—deserve a life of freedom and dignity.
Sam Chaise retweeted
If your biggest concern right now is some geopolitical game of Risk between so-called great powers and not the possibility of and struggle for emancipation for the peoples of Syria after the downfall of their dictator, then I think you’re missing the point of anti-imperialism
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This is a heartbreaking video.
For years, we’ve heard about women prisoners in Syria being raped, giving birth in prison, and their children being imprisoned along with their mothers.
As rebels open the prison doors to release prisoners, you can see a little boy in an overcrowded, messy cell.
I do not know if his mom was raped like so many women have been, but he is in prison regardless, which is horrific and emblematic of Bashar Al-Assad’s cruelty.
The women are in shock, disbelief, and frightened.
The main voice in this video keeps telling them not to be afraid and that they can go wherever they want.
Sam Chaise retweeted
This paper examines whether academic writing in economics reflects the political orientation of economists. The researchers use machine learning techniques to measure partisanship in academic economics articles.
The researchers find that their algorithm can predict political ideology of economists with reasonable accuracy, outperforming random chance. They also show that predicted ideology varies systematically across economics fields and institutions, with finance and business schools being more conservative, and labor and development economics being more liberal.
The results suggest that political preferences are reflected in the language used in academic economics, even though the profession has norms and institutions aimed at maintaining neutrality. The researchers argue this raises questions about the extent to which empirical economic research is influenced by the political leanings of researchers.
full paper: openread.academy/en/paper/re…
If the wound of trauma is the wound of exile, it makes sense that its healing comes through embrace. comment.org/home-is-where-th…
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Sam Chaise retweeted
Today BMS is launching an emergency appeal for Lebanon. Your help is urgently needed.
Giving just £25 could provide blankets and bedding for families displaced by conflict as winter draws near.
To give today, please head over to our website: bmswm.org/lebanon
In case you're wondering what I'm up to nowadays . . . this is it. :-) vimeo.com/938125835
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June 20th: WORLD REFUGEE DAY.
117 million forcibly displaced people.
75% hosted by low-income and middle-income countries.
100% known to God, and created by God.
#WorldRefugeeDay
youtu.be/9P-xy3ZpA90?si=RDES…
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Andy Rooney landed on the beach of Normandy days after D-Day, 80 years ago today. In 2004, he shared a firsthand account of “a day unlike any other.”
“It’s hard for anyone who has been in a war to describe the terror of it to anyone who hasn’t,” he said. cbsn.ws/3yTkNzC.
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Photo op with some BMS colleagues . . .
Day one DONE! Such a great time of fellowship already - so excited so chat, worship, pray and share with you tomorrow! #BaptistAssembly 💜
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Sam Chaise retweeted
Can’t stop thinking about this Francis Fukuyama paragraph from The End of History.
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Today marks a historic milestone in public health.
RTS,S malaria vaccine is finally introduced after 30+ years of development.
Cameroon is the first in Africa to roll out this vaccine.
I encourage @_AfricanUnion Member States to join Cameroon in rolling out this vaccine.
Sam Chaise retweeted
The problem isn’t believing the Bible is inspired by God.
The problem is believing your interpretation is.
