Storying in Narnia

I just ran across this in my bedtime reading to my kids.

In The Horse and His Boy, one of the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis writes...

At last Bree said, "And now Tarkheena, tell us your story. And don't hurry it--I'm feeling comfortable now."

Aravis [the Tarkheena] immediately began, sitting quite still and using a rather different tone and style from her usual one. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

Ha! An incentive to pay attention in week three, huh?!

Distinguishing between home and mission field no longer makes sense

Here's a link to an interesting article.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/january/30.42.html

He doesn't talk much about people groups, but he does make some interesting "missionary" points.

Among them, this:

The U.S. remains the largest single contributor of Protestant cross-cultural missionaries. But which country is the second largest? Not a Western nation, but India. And it is possible that India has overtaken the States in the number of those involved in truly cross-cultural mission—both within and beyond India. There are many more Korean missionaries than British, and some Nigerian evangelical mission organizations are larger in personnel than most Western ones (while operating on budgets that are a fraction of their Western counterparts’).