The Dust-Gatherer's Palm

We are born into other people’s stories. Our ancestors’ unspoken horrors—the smoke of Auschwitz, the mud-brick houses of forced resettlement, and communism’s dark nights—still ache in our very cells.

What happens to the human soul when the storms of history and personal fate plunder it again and again? How does one grow up in the shadow of an abusive father, survive life-and-death battles for one’s children, and then—later in life, leaving everything behind—set out into utter uncertainty?

This is not a conventional religious memoir filled with reassuring answers. Rather, it is a searingly honest, Job-like reckoning with God. The author conceals neither his anger nor his doubts, nor the pain of the “slow death of the seed,” as he leads us from the silenced family traumas of twentieth-century Hungary to the astonishing miracles of global mission.