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Running to the fire

an American missionary comes of age in revolutionary Ethiopia

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An edition of Running to the fire (2015)

Running to the fire

an American missionary comes of age in revolutionary Ethiopia

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"In the streets of Addis Ababa in 1977, shop-front posters illustrate Uncle Sam being strangled by an Ethiopian revolutionary, parliamentary leaders are executed, student protesters are gunned down, and Christian mission converts are targeted as imperialistic sympathizers. Into this world arrives sixteen-year-old Tim Bascom, whose missionary parents have brought their family from a small town in Kansas straight into Colonel Mengistu's Marxist "Red Terror." Here they plan to work alongside a tiny remnant of western missionaries who trust that God will somehow keep them safe. Running to the Fire focuses on the turbulent year the Bascom family experienced upon traveling into revolutionary Ethiopia. The teenage Bascom finds a paradoxical exhilaration in living so close to constant danger. At boarding school in Addis Ababa, where dorm parents demand morning devotions and forbid dancing, Bascom bonds with other youth due to a shared sense of threat. He falls in love for the first time, but the young couple is soon separated by the politics that affect all their lives. Across the country, missionaries are being held under house arrest while communist cadres seize their hospitals and schools. A friend's father is imprisoned as a suspected CIA agent; another is killed by raiding Somalis. Throughout, the teenaged Bascom struggles with his faith and his role within the conflict as a white American Christian missionary's child. Reflecting back as an adult, he explores the historical, cultural, and religious contexts that led to this conflict, even though in doing so he is forced to ask himself questions that are easier left alone. Why, he wonders, did he find such strange fulfillment in being young and idealistic in the middle of what was essentially a kind of holy war?"--Publisher.

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English
Pages
232

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Table of Contents

Lit
Into the furnace
Fire and sky
Scorched
Ashes, ashes
A voice from the flames
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-232).

Published in
Iowa City
Series
Sightline books, Sightline books

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
963/.071092
Library of Congress
DT387.954.B37 A3 2015, DT387, DT387.954.B37A3 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
232 pages
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28411806M
Internet Archive
runningtofireame0000basc
ISBN 10
1609383281
ISBN 13
9781609383282, 9781609383299, 9781609382399
LCCN
2014034806
OCLC/WorldCat
892163746

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