43: From Islam to Christ—Derya Little

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🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The news media invariably give a skewed version of Islam as a world of tolerance and open-minded toward the differently-minded. Derya Little can tell you otherwise from growing up in Turkey in a 99% Muslim milieux.

Her dramatic, at times, harrowing story is told in her spiritual autobiography From Islam to Christ: One Woman’s Path Through the Riddles of God.

As you’ll learn from the interview, Derya discovered that Christianity is essentially a loving relationship with a divine Person as opposed to the Islamic idea of Allah as master and the reality of Islamic government as theocracy.

And what a story: divorced parents; atheist worldview; living la vida loca at university; an abortion; another abortion.

Then an encounter with Christ as an evangelical -- huge. Discovery of sacred Tradition and the sacraments, especially of Confession -- even more huge -- with a denouement of finding lasting love in the Sacrament of Matrimony and the bosom of holy Mother Church.

Derya vulnerably tells her tale of transformation with interesting asides in this very personal interview. Kindly share with friends.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode number 43 of the Patrick Coffin Show.
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0:39.2	You're about to meet the innovators and influencers who are restoring the Judeo-Christian foundations of our culture right here on the Patrick Coffin show.
0:50.0	And now here's your host, Patrick Coffin.
0:55.0	Yes, indeed, welcome back to the Patrick Coffin show.
1:01.0	This is the show where we go upstream from arguments about politicians
1:05.1	and public institutions and 1970s game shows to the heart of the matter, the things that last,
1:12.0	the formational sources of culture. of the
1:13.2	formational sources of culture.
1:15.0	Today we have a really fascinating guess with a story that you don't hear a lot.
1:19.6	Catholics particularly are used to hearing about stories from atheism or from
1:25.1	Protestantism. Once in a while there'll be a Muslim story come across the
1:28.8	the finish line, but it's rare to find a conversion story that combines all of them from Muslim to
1:34.6	atheists to evangelical all the way to the bosom of the Catholic Church.
1:38.0	It's a new book that tells the story it's called From Islam to Christ and its author joins us today. Her name is
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