September 1, 2010
FROM MY BOOKSHELF: Missionary Loses It All””Even His Faith
By LeRoy Lawson ___________________ Daniel L. Everett, Don”t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (New York: Vintage Books, 2008). Kerry and Chris Shook, One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook Press, 2008). Leland Ryken, How to Read the Bible as Literature (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984). ___________________ You won”t sleep through Daniel Everett”s Don”t Sleep, There Are Snakes. This is one of the most engrossing and disturbing books on missions I have read in a long time, a study in cultural anthropology and linguistics that often reads like a jungle
