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Nodding Terms
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not…we forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.” Joan Didion
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6. February 2012
“To map out a course of action and follow it to the end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Continue reading...Book Review: Radical Together, by David Platt
8. January 2012
Recently, I received a free advanced reading copy of David Platt’s, Radical Together from Mission Frontiers. I volunteered to post a review of the book in exchange for being able to read it for free, but am not required to make my review positive by default. This is the first of Platt’s books that I’ve [...]
Continue reading...DAKTAR – Diplomat to Bangladesh Part 7
6. January 2012
During his life and experiences as a medical missionary doctor and pioneer in Bangladesh Dr. Viggo Olsen outlined key principles for effective medical ministry. They are so simply yet groundbreaking and revolutionary that I thought I should share them, if for no other reason, to firmly embed them in my own mind. The tragedy is that for [...]
Continue reading...DAKTAR – Diplomat in Bangladesh – Part 2
31. December 2011
Quote from Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh by Viggo Olsen “First, we do not treat sickness; rather we care for human beings afflicted with sickness. And second, we must care for the whole man, not just his sick body. Man is body, mind, and spirit. Illness striking any one of these three parts of man almost [...]
Continue reading...Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh – Part 1
30. December 2011
One of the best books I’ve read on Medical Missions is a personal account written by Dr. Viggo Olsen entitled Daktar: Diplomat in Bangladesh. The principles he draws from his own experiences are timeless. I was looking over the book again today and came across this quote which I feel as if I could have [...]
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7. February 2012
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