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Literary Cafe:
Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians
by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert and Nina Shea

Saturday People, Sunday People:
Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner
by Lela Gilbert 

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Appearance by co-author Lela Gilbert

Location: Home of Dr. Robert and Leslie Hamilton, 210 25th Street, Santa Monica, 90404

Admission: $15.00

Parking: Street

About the Book Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians: 
Persecuted is a large, collective documentation of Christian persecution stories from around the globe. The book speaks of the reality and cost of being a Christian, but also the terrible injustice that has “mysteriously” befallen this group. This book really brings much needed awareness of the reality of Christian persecution, insults, deaths, and sufferings that occur daily around the world (from the Middle East to Asia), and calls on sympathizers to stand up and come to the aid of Christian victims.

About the Book Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner:
Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived in Israel on a personal pilgrimage in August 2006—in the midst of a raging war. What she found was a vibrant country, enlivened by warm-hearted, lively people of great intelligence and decency.

Saturday People, Sunday People is a unique portrait of Israel as seen through the eyes of a Christian who came for a visit and has stayed on for more than six years. Long fascinated by a land that has become an abstraction centering on international conflicts of epic proportions, Lela Gilbert arrived in Israel on a personal pilgrimage in August 2006—in the midst of a raging war. What she found was a vibrant country, enlivened by warm-hearted, lively people of great intelligence and decency.

About the Author:

Lela Gilbert has authored or co-authored more than sixty published books. She writes primarily in the field of ecumenical non-fiction. Besides Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner and Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians, she wrote Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World, and is co-author of Windows To Heaven: Introducing Icons to Western Christians, with Elizabeth Zelensky. She writes music, poetry and has published fiction and children's book. She serves an editorial consultant, a contributor to the Jerusalem Post, Huffington Post and National Review Online and is an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute. She lives in California and Jerusalem.