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The world watched in horror as passenger planes crashed into the
World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. But it wasn't the only story
to make headlines that infamous day. A 30-year-old cold case was
solved. Veteran crime reporter Bob Mitchell tells the untold story
behind the international hunt and arrest of Patrick Critton, a
former black militant, who lived a double life as a respected
school teacher, model citizen, community activist and mentor of
troubled youth in America's largest city. His capture just days
before 9/11 is as amazing a story as his intriguing life journey.
It's a tale of a rebel boy, who grew up in poverty, went to
university and became an underground cell leader, a bank robber, a
hijacker and a Cuban sugar cane farmer before turning his life
around. Using interviews, court transcripts, newspaper files and
Critton's own words, Mitchell paints a revealing portrait of a
fugitive who spent 30 years running away from his own conscience.
International development work is a largely secular discipline that
distances itself from faith concerns; even many faith-based groups
seem to go out of their way to minimise the relationship between
their religious convictions and their work. Secular groups often
see faith-based agencies as "irritating marginal players" in the
global development scene. But what if much of the value of these
groups is exactly the result of that sense of religious mission?
Mitchell posits that, contrary to popular perception, church
organisations have long been major players in international
development work, and that many of these organisations do take the
relationship between their work and the faith that underpins it
very seriously. Instead of apologising for their faith roots and
expression, they should celebrate them-and recognise the value they
bring to every development enterprise, secular or not.
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