Facing Terror: The true Story of How an American Couple paid the ultimate price because of their love of Muslim people

While we were shopping for a gift at the Barnes and Noble bookstore on South University, my wife discovered a book written by Carrie McDonnall. Carrie, of course, is the Southern Baptist humanitarian aid worker critically injured in Iraq. Her husband and three other workers under the auspices of the International Mission Board were killed in a March 2004 attack. She was the lone survivor.

I knew that the International Mission Board had recently published a book about the eight Southern Baptist workers who have given their lives over the last three years. David McConnall is one of them. The book is called Lives Given, Not Taken. Here is a Baptist Press article. However, I had not known that Carrie had written a book.

It's quite odd to walk into a Barnes and Noble and see someone you know on the cover of a book ... especially if their not a SBC leader or professor.

What is even more odd is opening the book and seeing a picture of Chris McKinney (see his blog here). I often see seminary students at Barnes and Noble, usually in the Starbucks, but rarely in the books.

This book ought to be a good read.