Family has long been important to West Africans. As a young man, Tony Weedor was no exception; he felt lucky to have grown up in rural Liberia as part of a close-knit Muslim clan. Everything changed for Tony, however, when his mother and father cast him out for converting to Christianity. He graduated from college, married, and found a job with a Christian missionary organization. Then Liberia disintegrated into horrific Civil War, and Tony,...