Krys Lee Book Review

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Krys Lee spoke about her faith being restored; not so with the religion foundation but with people’s faith that life could be good. She was able to see correlations with her “Christian” upbringing and the refugee situation in China. Christianity is largely seen as services to others; love thy neighbor, nevertheless, for her being Christian meant something else. Being a pastor’s daughter gave her the ability to see reality over her father’s shoulders. She spoke about her father’s corruption and fraudulence within his congregation, resembling her experience with the Christian missionary in China. Both her father, a pastor of a congregation and the missionary in china had charismatic façades whom become unlikely sources of hostile oppression. My comprehension when she stated that “behind faith there are complications” (Lee presentation, April 20, 2017), was that faith alone is not what makes Christianity but the choices and behaviors of those that have the power to lead or help people in need. Though, her experience with her father and the Christian missionary are retained with negative counts of violence, power and inequality, she was able to see …show more content…
For example, young Iranian males leaving their homes and their entire families behind, Syrian families seeing the bodies of their love ones wash up on shores and Lee’s fictional story of a brother having to end his sister’s misery by his own hands. For Lee, many have come to her with their survival stories and perhaps some had to make unimaginable decisions that would carry forward and continue replenishing as a dark watering hole. In my opinion, one can move forward after a tragedy, nonetheless the affects on a person can take deep roots that are fed by the feeling of guilt, of having survived and not

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