Bøker av Danger Geist

"When God moves, Bethlehem suffers."From the moment she was born in the little sieged town of Bethlehem, everyone has been trying to bury Claire Anastas. Her own father fit her for a casket at her birth, and even today the West Bank separation wall swallows her business and livelihood.Come and experience occupied Bethlehem from Claire's guesthouse as she braves the oppression of her people, wrestles with the holy grief of her family being torn apart, and struggles to reclaim the shine from a city once known for its star, a city now in desperate need of resurrection.Burial only seems like the end when you're still stuck in the grave.

"Even the very wise do not see all ends." Danger Geist obsessed over two things as a child: playing stitch at recess and scrupulizing the coming Christian apocalypse in the geopolitical epicenter of Armageddon. Now an adult, nobody can tell him he's not allowed to eat popcorn for dinner or that he can't walk through Israeli minefields, so he trades the Midwest for the Mid-East to travel to the Nativity manger, the Temple Mount, Rachel's Tomb, the site of Christ's Baptism, the Mount of Temptation, and even the hallowed Tomb of Jesus Christ - all of which he's denied entry - in what is certainly the worst Holy Land tourism experience imaginable. Danger's pilgrimage takes a serious turn when he meets two women - one, an oppressed Palestinian and the other, an Orthodox Jew - who are shut off from each other by an ethnic, religious, and literal wall. While stuck between the two irreconcilable worldviews, Danger is clipped with the darkest tragedy his family has ever endured. Suddenly, the truths from the mountaintop aren't translating in the valley, and Danger finds himself questioning the most central tenets of his entrenched faith. If there was something that you believed with your entire being - your whole mind, body, and soul - but it was actually a lie, would you want to know?

What's in a name? Ask Danger. A naïve 17 year-old boy thinks he understands why he enlisted in the Army, but his assumptions are challenged when he's called to serve in a volatile region of Afghanistan. Now a 22 year-old Sergeant stuck in a combat zone, Danger aims to find purpose behind his forced separation from his beloved girlfriend Joanna. Just when Danger thinks he's survived the war, he finds a bit of himself seems to have died in Afghanistan. I am Danger; I am Prisoner is the inspirational true story of a boy who wanted to do the right thing, only to grow up and find himself enslaved in a lie that both haunts and liberates him. Travel with Danger as he survives the decrepit streets of East St. Louis to the terrorist-infested villages of Afghanistan, not without creating relationships with the Muslim natives who teach him a few Christian lessons along the way as he discovers that his greatest danger may be himself.