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Copyright (c) 2017 Baptist Press . Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention . The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/49368/from-the-states-ga-calif-and-texas-evangelismmissions-news-what-we-really-hope-and-pray-to-do-is-impact-their-lives-for-christ by Staff, posted Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (11 days ago) Today's From the States features items from: The Christian Index (Georgia) California Southern Baptist Southern Baptist TEXAN ********** Ga. literacy missions bringing Gospel to refugees, immigrants By Joe Westbury CARROLLTON, Ga. (The Christian Index) -- For Annette Ingram, it began when she drove by a low- income apartment complex and saw a large sign that said, " Free ESL Classes ." That piqued her interest because she was already certified as an English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) instructor through the State of Florida when she served in the DeSoto County public schools . ...

Granta’s online editor Luke Neima in conversation with Nicole Krauss on the genesis of her new book,  Forest Dark, her love for Kafka and the reality of ‘the self’. Luke Neima: To start with, can you tell me about the genesis of this book? Where did it come from, what inspired it? Nicole Krauss : There was no singular genesis. I remember having the feeling that I wanted to write a book that somehow evoked thousands of years of history, and at the same time the longing to break free of it. Along with that, I knew that I wanted in some way to address the waning of wonder or awe in our time, and their replacement by an obsession with factual and rational knowledge. What do we give up when we turn our backs on the unknown, in our anxious hurrying toward the comfort and stability of certainty? Why do we see not-knowing and formlessness as a temporary, less useful station on the way toward the known, rather than an authentic and even valuable state of being? Neima : The book blends elemen...