This Week's Story

Who are you? part one

Discover fascinating people and ideas in American history and the Bible through short stories on This Week's Story mp3 audio and text for reading.

A teenager searching for his identity questions John the Baptist.

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A teenage boy, maybe seventeen years old, came through a sandy ravine on his camel. The camel lowered his legs and body; the fellow swung his legs off the camel’s back and took a few steps. He looked back at the camel. Instantly, the camel spit at him, a smelly mixture of saliva and vomit from the camel’s first stomach. The fellow jumped aside.

A stranger stood watching curiously. “What is the problem with your camel?…
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