In This Issue:
- EUROPE: Iranian Musician Finds a New Song
- LEBANON: One Million Syrian Refugees
- INDIA: Hindu Radicals Storm Prayer Meeting
- PHILIPPINES: Deaf Disciple Deaf
- NEPAL: Between the Dragon and the Elephant
Image: World Watch Monitor; Syrian refugee children in a makeshift tent. More than a million Syrian refugees are registered with the UN in Lebanon.
Greetings,
In a 2014 article for the International Journal of Frontier Missiology, L.D. Waterman explored eight dimensions of life in Christ, three of them dealing with aspects of identity: core identity, social identity, and collective identity. This week’s news deals with all three. An Iranian musician finds a new core identity, refugees must adapt to a new social identity, and Nepal is battling for its own collective identity. For most of my life I thought only of core (or personal) identity, which may be understandable for someone from individualistic America. Yet identity can be much more complex.
A look at how we spend our time might suggest where we find our identity (Flowing Data).
For insights into how an individual embraces an identity as a terrorist, see the 55-minute documentary My Brother the Terrorist (LINK TV), or, for a Christian perspective, please read Four Islamic Voices (INContext).
In Christ,
Pat