{"id":5546,"date":"2015-04-22T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5546"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:26:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:26:06","slug":"book-mission-mobilization-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5546","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Mission Mobilization Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Child of Ishmael<\/a>, by James Wright. CreateSpace, 2015. 418 pages.<\/p>\n

Mission books don\u2019t tend to make the best-seller lists, and mission fiction is almost non-existent. So when an author whose previous book we\u2019d reviewed and enjoyed told me he\u2019d written a novel to help mobilize people for missions, I thought you\u2019d want to hear about it. An unusual resource!<\/p>\n

The novel deals with the awakening of a somewhat naive Iowa college-town pastor and his community when a mosque goes up across the street from their church and brings them face-to-face with Islam, apparently for the first time. They start questioning their assumptions about faith, world religions, and how the church should respond. You probably know people who hold the same views or struggle with the same questions. Several characters even end up traveling to Central Asia to solve a few mysteries and visit a man they met through the mosque.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Learn more or purchase the Kindle edition<\/a> for US$8.99 from Amazon ($14.99 for the paperback). See also Fields of Gold: Planting a Church among Central Asian Muslims<\/a>, or read our review of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Child of Ishmael, by James Wright. CreateSpace, 2015. 418 pages. Mission books don\u2019t tend to make the best-seller lists, and mission fiction is almost non-existent. So when an author whose previous book we\u2019d reviewed and enjoyed told me he\u2019d written a novel to help mobilize people for missions, I thought you\u2019d want to hear about … Continue reading BOOK: Mission Mobilization Fiction?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5547,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}