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How he purged the voices in my head telling me I was worthless.

Abortion seemed like the obvious answer—until I met the Lord of life.

How God used a stiff prison sentence and a church invitation to rescue me from a downward spiral of guns, drugs, and despair.

I was born in a Sunni Muslim home in Bangladesh, where I learned the meaning of stern discipline from my father, a major general in the military with responsibilities in the intelligence service. We lived on different army bases in elaborate quarters reserved for officers and their families. Servants catered to our every need. The business and political elite of Bangladesh and Pakistan frequented social events in our home. I grew up attending an Islamic madrasa (religious school), where we studied the Qur’an and learned classical Arabic from an imam. My father could trace his lineage back t...