Comments on: Is it NEW? http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian T. Carroll http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/comment-page-1/#comment-1566 Brian T. Carroll Wed, 27 May 2009 13:33:56 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/?p=1207#comment-1566 If by ever increasing population you mean the growth in population caused by immigration, we need to remember that Americans have aborted 50 million. I too have traveled in China, and visited slums in Colombia and Brazil that made one wonder if the world might not have too many people. But I don't believe that's God's view of things. I believe He's given us the necessary resources. Our job is to find ways to better distribute those resources, and that will begin by a better understanding that we share this planet with a wide variety of peoples. If by ever increasing population you mean the growth in population caused by immigration, we need to remember that Americans have aborted 50 million. I too have traveled in China, and visited slums in Colombia and Brazil that made one wonder if the world might not have too many people. But I don’t believe that’s God’s view of things. I believe He’s given us the necessary resources. Our job is to find ways to better distribute those resources, and that will begin by a better understanding that we share this planet with a wide variety of peoples.

]]> By: Etta Wilson http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/comment-page-1/#comment-1564 Etta Wilson Tue, 26 May 2009 21:31:19 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/?p=1207#comment-1564 The comments from Rich and Kristen who have lived in China and India seem to validate our decreasing distance from one another. The part I can't compute is our ever-increasing population. Certainly it's a help to know better our brothers and sisters around the world and to appreciate their writing. Etta The comments from Rich and Kristen who have lived in China and India seem to validate our decreasing distance from one another. The part I can’t compute is our ever-increasing population. Certainly it’s a help to know better our brothers and sisters around the world and to appreciate their writing.
Etta

]]> By: Kristen Torres-Toro http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/comment-page-1/#comment-1565 Kristen Torres-Toro Tue, 26 May 2009 21:14:20 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/?p=1207#comment-1565 This is really encouraging to me. I'm a missionary, and most recently returned from several months in India. Living overseas has given me a very different worldview than what I'd had before I began this line of work, and in turn, this new worldview is very evident in my work. The increased growth in the global community gives me hope that I really can do both--which has been my dream all along! This is really encouraging to me. I’m a missionary, and most recently returned from several months in India. Living overseas has given me a very different worldview than what I’d had before I began this line of work, and in turn, this new worldview is very evident in my work. The increased growth in the global community gives me hope that I really can do both–which has been my dream all along!

]]> By: Rich http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/comment-page-1/#comment-1562 Rich Tue, 26 May 2009 20:00:10 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/?p=1207#comment-1562 Until 2007 I'd never been outside the US. That spring I spent a week in Europe and another week in China. My current project looks at some of the 'rougher virtues' that the Bible calls us to but often we don't heed because we don't like them. The visit to China - seeing a government keep the Gospel from people who are hungry for it whatever it takes opened my eyes. Here in America the biggest RISK regularly encountered is choking when the communion wafer isn't chewed well enough to be washed down by the thimble of juice. The connectivity and having friends in China makes it more difficult to just "return home" and not continue to think about what was experienced overseas. Until 2007 I’d never been outside the US. That spring I spent a week in Europe and another week in China.

My current project looks at some of the ‘rougher virtues’ that the Bible calls us to but often we don’t heed because we don’t like them.

The visit to China – seeing a government keep the Gospel from people who are hungry for it whatever it takes opened my eyes. Here in America the biggest RISK regularly encountered is choking when the communion wafer isn’t chewed well enough to be washed down by the thimble of juice.

The connectivity and having friends in China makes it more difficult to just “return home” and not continue to think about what was experienced overseas.

]]> By: Lynn Dean http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/comment-page-1/#comment-1563 Lynn Dean Tue, 26 May 2009 14:31:53 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/?p=1207#comment-1563 Americans readers seem to be curious about the many cultures we hail from. Rich settings and characterizations can "take" a reader places they may not have been. It builds empathy when we see the world through someone else's eyes--exploring the differences and discovering similarities. Americans readers seem to be curious about the many cultures we hail from. Rich settings and characterizations can “take” a reader places they may not have been. It builds empathy when we see the world through someone else’s eyes–exploring the differences and discovering similarities.

]]> By: Brian T. Carroll http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/is-it-new/comment-page-1/#comment-1561 Brian T. Carroll Tue, 26 May 2009 14:01:53 +0000 http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/?p=1207#comment-1561 Etta, I find this very encouraging. It would take too long to explain how this relates to my WIP, but I had been feeling lately like I was doomed to spend the rest of my life writing for myself (and maybe my children, three of whom married outside the US). I hope this isn't just others coming to us, but means we're open to understanding the rest of the world. Etta, I find this very encouraging. It would take too long to explain how this relates to my WIP, but I had been feeling lately like I was doomed to spend the rest of my life writing for myself (and maybe my children, three of whom married outside the US). I hope this isn’t just others coming to us, but means we’re open to understanding the rest of the world.

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