Identity

#1 · January 9, 2016, 9:49 am

Posted by: forthrightmag <forthrightmag@...>

Michael Brooks posted: ""Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging" (Mark 10:46 NKJV). When I apply for visas for South Asian countries or fill out immigration forms"

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Identity

by Michael Brooks

"Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging" (Mark 10:46 NKJV).

When I apply for visas for South Asian countries or fill out immigration forms to enter those countries I always notice that they ask for my father's name. As one who is well past middle age, and whose father has been deceased for over 20 years, I find that a little strange. But there is still much of the world where family linage is the most, or one of the most, definitive characteristics of one's identity. Read more of this post

Michael Brooks | January 9, 2016 at 8:48 am | Tags: bangladesh, linage, missionary, missions, nepal | Categories: Articles, Field Notes | URL: http://wp.me/s1HIjv-identity

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