I titled this "The Curious Case of Christian Martyrdom in America Today" for a reason; not that martyrdom itself is strange or foreign to the church of Jesus Christ. We have all seen that in the Scriptures—from the blood of righteous Abel, who was slain by his brother Cain, all the way down to the brutal death of Stephen in the book of Acts. And if you know anything of church history or the world today, you will know that martyrdom is not something confined to the pages of Scripture, but it...