By Faith McDonnell
Sorrow & Blood: Christian Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Persecution, and Martyrdom is a new book from the World Evangelical Alliance’s Mission Commission. It is not a slim volume. It took 560 pages to produce a sufficiently comprehensive global study of persecution and suffering in the Body of Christ. And even so, Sorrow & Blood could have been even longer. Authors were encouraged to keep their contributions short. I know, because I wrote Chapter 67.
The anthology crosses the world – both by the nationalities of the writers and through the subject matter. In addition to North Americans from the U.S.A. and Canada, the authors of the book are from Brazil, China, England, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Turkey, as well as from an unidentified spot in the Middle East. One of the longest sections of the book features case studies from history and from today of persecuted Christians in the Roman Empire, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere.
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