Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
7-31-2017
Abstract
Excerpt: "From the very first pages of her memoir, Assimilate or Go Home, I felt an affinity with D.L. Mayfield. Perhaps I recognized my students in Mayfield’s idealism and innocence, a missionary fervor that burns brightly in many undergraduates who attend Christian universities like the one where I teach. Perhaps I saw in her narrative my own youthful firebrand heart when, as a senior in college, I longed to get arrested protesting injustice; imagined sitting in a jail, even, believing such activism would show how deeply my convictions ran and how ardently I loved Jesus."
Recommended Citation
Mock, Melanie Springer, "Reigniting the Firebrand Heart" (2017). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 100.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/100
Comments
Originally published in Evangelicals for Social Action, July 31, 2017.
https://www.evangelicalsforsocialaction.org/resources/book-reviews/reigniting-the-firebrand-heart/