Today Karen and I arrive in Africa - land of religious fervor and conflict.  In places like the Sudan, the Muslims don't just want to kick out the Christians, they want to kill them.  They don't deal well with ambiguity.  As Blaise Pascal said, "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

One of the things that the Muslims struggle most with is the Christian understanding of the Trinity.  Islam is a black and white religion - it gives comfort to those who want to know what they need to DO to please God.  Here - do these five things and you will please Allah.

Actually, it reminds you of the Old Testament.  With the advent of Christ, things got complicated.  He's fully man and fully God - what is that about?  He's Jesus, son of man, and Christ, son of God - how do you reconcile that?

Andrew Shearman does his best to unpackage this mystery in our conversation, a snippet of which I've excerpted below.