{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Lioness Women: Rooted in Christ","title":"The Bible Written on Her Heart: Courage Inside the Persecuted Church | Ed Brown","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3036,"description":"What does it mean to be one Body in Christ when part of that Body is suffering—and we don’t even know it?\nIn this powerful conversation, Jen sits down with Ed Brown, Secretary General of Stefanus Alliance International, to step into the lives of Christians around the world whose faith carries a cost most of us can scarcely imagine.\nEd takes us inside the underground Church in North Korea, where believers may gather only two or three at a time and women are quietly carrying the Gospel into places where possessing a Bible can mean imprisonment or death. He shares the unforgettable story of a woman who spent a year reading the Bible again and again, memorizing more than a thousand verses so that when she returned to North Korea, the Bible she carried would not be in her hands—it would be written on her heart.\nBut this conversation is about more than persecution.\nEd challenges us to consider whether the Body of Christ is functioning as a healthy body at all. When our physical bodies experience pain, signals travel immediately and the entire body responds. But when our brothers and sisters across the world are imprisoned, displaced, attacked or killed because of their faith—do we feel it? Do we respond?\nTogether, Jen and Ed explore what meaningful response can look like: caring for those who are suffering now, strengthening communities so they become more resilient, and engaging leaders and systems that can prevent persecution before it happens.\nThey also explore what persecuted Christians have taught Ed about faith itself.\nPerhaps courage isn’t always triumph.\nPerhaps strong faith doesn’t mean escaping suffering.\nPerhaps sometimes faith looks like Good Friday. Sometimes it looks like the silence of Saturday. And sometimes the deepest expression of faith is trusting that Christ is still with us—even when He does not immediately remove the pain.\nThis conversation is an invitation to look beyond our own experience of Christianity and remember that we belong to something...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qu4hIB0SlPGXGb7MmDdLKpHlavbZI6qnwpzrt7yZhWk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZjMz/NWUzNDc3N2U5ZWVk/NzcwNDJlNTE0ODM0/YzQ1NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}