Torie Bosch reviews James Church’s latest novel, The Man with the Baltic Stare
“Church’s real gift lies in intensifying that mystery,” Bosch writes, “presenting to us a nation of living and conniving people, not brainwashed ciphers. In his fourth volume, he sheds more light than has been ever before on the puzzling mix of motives that lurk in the North Korean who stays put.”
Was it on this site awhile ago that someone mentioned that what’s now North Korea once had a large number of Christians, with Pyongyang even being known as “the Jerusalem of the East?” (And someone responded saying “I thought Jerusalem was the Jerusalem of the East!”) Anyway, I found that a telling and sobering revelation.
Yes, I wrote that in this uninformative post. I don’t remember where I heard it, but I have talked to a South Korean businessman who leads a group who are passionate about taking the gospel west to Jerusalem. He gave a moving presentation on their belief that the gospel moved west to the U.S. and then Korea in the 50s-60s, and now Koreans felt a duty to take the good news the rest of the way around the world, back to Jerusalem.