[Engraved-on-His-hands]

FTA: "But it’s that very calling," he said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "that demonstrates the characteristics, the great things that Christ has done for humanity. He left heaven and he came to a place of suffering and trouble and went about doing good.”

[cloudmountain]

Well, Jesus DID instruct His Apostles to go out and "teach all nations."
They did a good job, didn't they?

[jocon307]

He looks like a wonderful fellow, serious minded and kindly. I hope he will recover I really do.

Oh yeah, and Ann Coulter is an idiot for what she said, just a maroon.

[mjp]

Heroic or foolish?

What actions one takes depends on one's choices, which depends on one's hierarchy of values, which depends on one's standard of values and the conditions one is in. One's standard of values depends on one's worldview, which depends on one's theology and philosophy or sense of life.What is foolish by a rational standard may be heroic to someone with a mystical standard or one based on emotionalism.

[Vendome]

[bgill]

It’s one thing for an adult to risk his life over there but it’s another thing to bring along his little kids who are too young to have a voice in the decision. It is not our responsibility to bring him back here putting this country at risk.

[Chickensoup]

My daughter is a missionary and teacher in Nicaragua. She lives behind barbed wire and with night guards after four pm. She is 22. Been there four years in varying capacities.

I love her and leave her in God’s hands. But my heart would want her home.

[LadyDoc]

Well, he went to push Christianity on...Christians? Most Liberians are Christian.

Me? I just saw it as a mitvah.