Fall Challenge

Vacation, meetings and projects have kept me away from blog-posting, but I’m back. It is truly Fall here in Indiana, and we’re taking the coolness with the fiery-red sugar maples outside our office windows. Life, as usual, is a mixed bag.

Today I want to recommend a couple of publications that have touched my heart and mind. Here at Bristol House, we have talked much about what it means to have a Christian worldview, especially in light of the increasing secularization of American society. The two publications I will describe profoundly contribute to the discussion, and I will offer web links for ordering them (they are not directly available from us at the present time).

Several years ago Sarah Lambrecht, then a Wheaton College student, spent a semester among the poorest of the poor, the children of the Guatemala City dump. Yes, you read that correctly, the dump—the place we avoid because of its smells, its infections, its rodents, its ugliness. These are her touching and challenging reflections of that time. I will submit a warning: Do not read Sought After if you are unwilling to face the realities of life for these living, breathing children and their parents. Be prepared to evaluate your own priorities and to vicariously experience their lives. It is worthy reading for individuals, for missions committees, for youth groups for UMW circles. We may offer lip service to the issues of poverty and injustice. Our church leaders may focus on the rights of Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Yet Sarah shows us the children so easily forgotten by everyone but God and the people he has called to minister to them.


ISBN: 1-4134-6761-X
www.Xlibris.com

Got Salvo?

The second publication caught my eye just last week. It is a new issue-oriented quarterly magazine for college students and others interested in today’s cutting-edge cultural issues from a biblical perspective. The premier issue on bio-ethics is a gem. Its design and presentation of excellent content are wonderfully creative, right down to the faux advertisements. Salvo’s purpose: Seeking to recover the one worldview that actually works.


You can find out more about it at www.salvomag.com.