A Book in One Hand, Courage in the Other
On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and demanded, "Which one of you is Malala?" Then he fired...
This is a contemporary on courage and education, drawing on 2 Timothy 1:7.
On October 9, 2012, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus in Mingora, Pakistan, and demanded, "Which one of you is Malala?" Then he fired three shots. Fifteen-year-old Malala Yousafzai — who had been blogging for BBC Urdu since age eleven about girls' right to learn — took a bullet to the left side of her head. Airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, she endured multiple surgeries and months of grueling rehabilitation.…
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