One reason I have dedicated my life to overseas mission work is the inspiration and challenge of those who have come before me. Particularly, the legacy missionaries of the past whose great biographies have withstood the test of time. Periodically, I find great encouragement in returning to some of these stories. To The Golden Shore: […]
In preparation to move my family to Paris, I was pleased to pick up The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed. Veteran authors and journalists Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau moved to Paris with their two daughters to spend a year in 2013-2014 researching the cultural and linguistic ques a family like […]
Modern America looks a lot like the days before Communism gained a firm foothold in the Soviet Bloc nations. This is Rod Dreher’s main proposal in his 2020 release Live Not by Lies. In this journalistically styled warning cry Dreher proposes that, “under the guise of ‘diversity,’ ‘inclusivity,’ ‘equity,’ and other egalitarian jargon, the Left […]
How have we arrived at the specific place we are now as a culture and as a contagious western people? A place where the statement, “I am a woman trapped in a man’s body,” makes sense to so many. This is the question Carl Truman begins with in his watershed book, The Rise and Triumph […]
As a young boy, missionary biographies greatly shaped and challenged me. They were exciting and made Christian living come alive with purpose. My hope is that the biographies of the faithful in the past may challenge my children as well. I recently borrowed the youth biography of Gladys Aylward produced by YWAM as a part […]
You may have heard it said, “We are all missionaries, whether nationally or internationally.” While all of us have indeed been commissioned to participate in reaching our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth in some way, Don Dent carefully examines the specific and unique role of “missionary apostles” in The Ongoing Role […]