Review: God in the Rainforest by Kathryn Long
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. (Jim Eliot) ‘Itota beyæ, tænonamai’ [On behalf of Jesus, do not spear.] (A phrase synonymous with the gospel for the Waorani) There are few stories in the English-speaking evangelical Christian world that have had greater impact than that of the Auca Five. Five young North American men, full of the promise and potential of the post-WWII generation, speared to death in equatorial Ecuador as they sought to bring the Gospel of Christ to a hitherto unreached, reclusive, jungle tribe. Their story has...