So What if You Are Hated
June 28, 2023
Bill Reichart talks to Ryan Bomberger from the Radiance Foundation about how we are to Biblically respond when people hate us because of our Christian convictions and faith. https://radiancefoundation.org/. Ryan Bomberger is an Emmy® Award-winning creative professional, international public speaker, columnist, factivist, and author of the powerful books, Not Equal: Civil Rights Gone Wrong and the new She is She illustrated children’s book. He is the Cofounder of RadianceFoundation.org with his wife Bethany, a life-affirming organization based on the belief that every human life has purpose.
Ryan has a rather unique perspective of the innate nature of purpose. He is one of ten children who were adopted and loved in a diverse family of fifteen. Today, as an adoptee and adoptive father, he enjoys boldly illuminating the intrinsic worth we all possess.
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