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File Size: 1705 KB
Print Length: 246 pages
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition (April 1, 2015)
Publication Date: April 1, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00UAOBZJ6
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A memoir that covers a missionary family’s return to Ethiopia at the worst possible time because of the revolution raging in 1977 fueled by Communist forces. Tim Bascom does a good job of capturing the real-time fears and anti-American drama felt by a teenage boy worried for the safety of his family and “home†in the remote countryside of a war torn country. What I most valued (as an “MK†or missionary kid myself) is the adult version of that boy asking tough questions about whether missionaries have the right to change the local African cultures and whether they are truly serving the needs of the local people. He wonders if their sacrifices are part of a need to be in adrenaline-filled situations while ignoring the safety and mental wellbeing of their children, who didn’t choose that life. I don’t have any answers but I applaud the author for raising these concerns.
This book was added as part of my collection. I got it for a really good price and it looks like a good read. I am reading another book now but this is next.
Fascinating read and a balanced look at missionary life.
Talk about a front-row seat for a revolution! Tim Bascom reluctantly left Kansas at the beginning of his high school years to move with his family back to Ethiopia, where his father, a Baptist missionary, would serve as a doctor. In Running to the Fire, Tim reflects, decades later, on his experiences there. Living in Addis Ababa, going to a boarding school for missionary kids, he was somewhat protected. Through the fence, though, and while on outings, he saw the fruits of the Marxist uprising in the checkpoints, the dead victims on the road, the changes in the streets.Running to the Fire is a nice mix of Ethiopian history, reflections on the missionary life, and of coming of age as a Christian. To Bascom, the verdict is mixed. The Marxists were pretty bad, but in some ways the Orthodox church's persecution of other Christians was worse. He appreciated his parents, the sacrifices they made, and seemed to admire their work, but he ponders Western arrogance and the sometimes negative impact of Western missions in the developing world. And his own faith--well, it's clear that the legalism of his upbringing pushed him away. He is still a Christian, but exhibits a healthy skepticism: "Skepticism sweeps over me when people seem to have an unwarranted conviction about what God wants--what exactly is God's desire or plan. . . . I continue to doubt when others act convinced by their own special revelation."I would encourage anyone involved in foreign missions to pick up Running to the Fire, especially if they have kids on the field, and even more especially if they are in a more legalistic, conservative tradition. I'm not a missionary, but I appreciated his perspective as a teen in a rigorous religious tradition. I want to encourage my teens to be involved in church, to practice spiritual disciplines, and develop their own faith. I don't want my actions and words to lead my kids to say my encouragement "lowered the very thing it claimed to elevate--shrank my eagerness into reluctant obedience" the way Bascom responded to one of the missionary school teacher's chiding him for missing morning devotionals. Whether in a war zone or a comfortable American suburb, raising children to be faithful Christians can be a challenging adventure.Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the complimentary electronic review copy!
I received an advance review copy of Tim Bascom’s second memoir and was gripped by its central question: Why do some people run to fire? His family flies into Ethiopia’s ill-fated communist revolution from tranquil Kansas in the 1970s just as other expats flee. Compassion, heroism, faith, doubt and adventure interplay as Bascom wrestles with why his medical missionary family returned during Ethiopia’s most tragic human rights turn—one that claimed .25 million famine deaths.Yet what triumphs is Bascom’s own life among worlds lived in 3D hyper-drive—and in reverse—as his adult self interjects analysis 30 years later. Telling his story as one trying to understand all sides, Bascom entangles us in complex questions without easy resolutions.At boarding school in Ethiopia, gunfire in the streets shatters the night and Bascom realizes people are risking death for what they believed. I loved his experimental address to readers: “What would have that much value for you?â€I enjoyed the history and the telling. Yet Bascom is at his best when he bares his soul: his periodic doubt juxtaposed with his father’s bold faith; his learning to hunt and kill birds versus his father’s apparent willingness to die. His cold daily devotions versus the hot, rebellious devotions of imprisoned Christians.Throughout, I was buoyed by Bascom’s lush, poetic language, and lifted with him on a beautiful peak in Bulki, south Ethiopia, when he finally reaches his home village. Adding meaning and relevance, as though digesting the story with us, Bascom’s older voice breaks in to extend the experience and linger over its personal, intellectual, spiritual and historical depths.This is a brilliant turn at memoir, layering meaning into memory; adding the long view of history, doing the heavy lifting by mining significance of story and spaces. The adult self claims some inherited truths, and rejects others (just pray when political systems go bad?). And yet Bascom is unapologetic of his 16-year-old self bowing forehead to the floor in a village church.In this gripping narrative, as communist conflict results in deaths and imprisonments, Bascom asks fundamental questions. If prayers, trust and loyalty to Jesus save some, why not others? Perhaps, as Job of the Bible discovers, it is the wrong question. And yet for a writer raised in 1977 Addis, it is classic.The author claims not only an international childhood but a trauma surviving identity. This is a towering book. I am convinced when, after his good-bye to a high school sweetheart, he writes simply, “Ashes, ashes.†Some scenes are so well-conveyed emotionally that language is inadequate.Bascom admits to an innate skepticism in contrast to others’ innate optimism. Yet on a return visit 30 years later he reaches a personal epiphany that pierced me with the permanence and solidity of place despite the rootlessness of a traveling childhood; the perennial nature of faith despite waves of doubt.- Faith Eidse, co-editor, Unrooted Childhoods & Writing Out of Limbo
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