Why this matters.
In some parts of the world, what you are doing right now —
reading about Jesus — can cost you everything. We do not say
this to frighten anyone. We say it because it is true, and pretending
otherwise would dishonor the people who write to us at real
personal cost.
In thirteen countries, leaving Islam is punishable by death under
the law. In many more, it is punishable by imprisonment, by family
disinheritance, by forced divorce, by the loss of children, or by
so-called honor violence carried out by extended family or
neighbors. The threat is not from ordinary Muslims, most of whom
are gentle and reasonable people. The threat is from specific legal
regimes, from organized extremist groups, and sometimes from those
closest to the seeker.
People who help seekers — pastors, missionaries, even site
operators — are also targeted. We are aware of this. We have
built the site accordingly.
We are not speaking theoretically. Since this site went up, we have
received hate mail, threats, and harassment in our own inbox. None
of that is unexpected, and none of it has changed how we operate
— but it is the reason we say with absolute certainty that
we understand the consequences of seeking the truth are dire for
many people around the world. We have seen a small fraction of
what some of you live under every day. We do not take your trust
for granted.
Our promises to you.
These are not aspirations. They are how the site is actually built and run.
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We will never share your information without your permission.
Not with ad networks, not with data brokers, not with anyone.
The one exception is honest and worth naming: when the volume
of seeker mail exceeds what one person can answer with care,
we may ask a vetted Christian leader (a sponsor who has
specifically opted in to help) to take a conversation. Even
then, your message is only forwarded if you have
first asked us to connect you with someone, or have given
explicit permission when we ask. The default is, and always
will be: your story stays with us.
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We will never sell your information, and we do not
share anything with advertisers. No tracking pixels,
no behavioral profiling, no audience exports — nothing
about you goes to any ad network or data broker, ever. The
site stays funded through sponsorships and nothing else.
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We will never publish your name or your story
without your explicit permission. If you tell us
your dream, it stays between you and us unless you say
otherwise. If you give permission to publish, we will
change your name and any identifying details at your
request — or post nothing at all.
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We do not require an account to read.
Every article, every reference, every testimony on this
site is readable without signing up, without giving an
email, without leaving any trace tied to your identity.
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We do not run third-party tracking. No
Google Analytics, no Facebook pixels, no advertising
cookies. The only cookies we set are functional ones
needed to keep you signed in if you choose to create an
account.
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We retain only what we need. Submitted
messages live in our inbox; old form submissions are
purged when they are no longer useful for follow-up. IP
addresses are not stored permanently with content.
How the site is hardened.
We are deliberately specific here because vague assurances
("industry-standard security") are not comforting to anyone
making a real risk calculation. Here is what is actually in
place:
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HTTPS everywhere. Every page on this site
is delivered over an encrypted connection. There is no
plain-HTTP version that someone watching your network can
intercept.
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Cloudflare in front of the origin server.
Your real IP address never reaches our server directly;
Cloudflare proxies the connection. This also shields the
site against denial-of-service attacks aimed at silencing
it.
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Account passwords are hashed, not stored.
If you create an account, your password is run through a
slow one-way hash (PHP’s native bcrypt-family
implementation) before it touches the database. Even an
administrator cannot read your password. If our database
were somehow exposed, your password would not be.
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Anti-bot verification on the contact form.
We use Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-respecting
alternative to reCAPTCHA, to block automated scrapers and
brute-force submissions without tracking you.
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Server-side validation on every submission.
The forms reject any input that did not originate from
this site — origin and referer are checked, a
cryptographic CSRF token is required for account actions,
and inputs are sanitized before they touch the database
or the mail server.
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Email delivery is on our own server.
Messages from the contact form go through the server’s
own mail system — no third-party email service
receives or scans the contents.
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No outbound data to advertising or analytics.
Open your browser’s developer tools on any page of
this site and watch the network tab. The only outbound
connections are to fonts (Google Fonts, anonymous), to
Cloudflare (for Turnstile), and to our own server.
Nothing else.
If you are in a high-risk place.
If you are reading from a country or household where this could
put you in danger, here are simple things you can do that we
cannot do for you. None of them are paranoid. All of them are
standard practice for people who must read or write quietly.
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Use a VPN or the Tor Browser. Either one
hides this site from anyone monitoring your network
connection. Tor Browser is free and is used by journalists
and dissidents around the world for this exact reason.
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Use private/incognito browsing. This keeps
the pages you visit out of your browser history on the
device you are using.
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Use a pseudonym and a separate email. When
you write to us, you are free to use any name and any
email address. We do not need your real identity in order
to talk with you. A free email account (Proton, Tutanota,
or even a fresh Gmail) created just for this purpose is
wise.
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Ask us to move to an encrypted channel.
If you would like to continue a conversation more privately
than email allows, tell us in your message and we will
move to Signal or another end-to-end encrypted channel of
your choice.
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Clear your history when you are done.
Closing private browsing does this automatically. If you
were not in private mode, you can clear it from your
browser’s settings.
A note from the person who runs this site.
I am one man. I built this site because I believe the dreams
are real and the people having them deserve to find someone
who will tell them the truth without making it about politics
or about a tribe.
I know that some of you are reading this from places where
even the act of reading is dangerous. I will not pretend that
risk away. What I will do is make sure that, whatever else
happens, what passes between you and this site stays between
you and this site. I do not work for anyone who would want
your information. I never will.
If you ever need to write to me about something delicate, you
can use the
contact form
and I will read it personally. I want to be honest about what
I can and cannot do. I am one man, far away, and I cannot
intervene in dangerous situations from where I sit. What I
can offer is to listen, to pray with you, to answer your
questions honestly, and — only with your permission
— to put you in touch with someone who may be better
placed to help. What you write to me will be treated with
care and discretion.
— Pastor L., D.D.