Facing Danger: A Guide Through Risk

Facing Danger guides cross-cultural workers through a biblical discussion on risk, providing a spiritual and practical framework for working through cross-cultural risk assessment and management. In this book, Anna E. Hampton After living for almost a decade in the high-risk and dangerous environment of Afghanistan, Facing Danger works through how Anna attempted to raise her children without emotional and long-term trauma while simultaneously living out her calling to partner in a divine endeavor in a hostile culture. This is the real world where a biblical understanding of risk must work.

In general we see that people go to the field more broken than in any other generation, but from cultures increasingly adverse to risk.  We teach them to avoid risk, but then encourage them to go risk for the Gospel, and wonder why more folks can't be resilient and thrive on the field.

As C.S. Lewis says in Abolition of Man, "In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

This is something for which my generation must consider: "some are guilty, but all are responsible" (Heschel). I am driven by the question of what I will say to Him when I see Him face-to-face for my role in my generation.