Daniel: Power, Business, and Politics

by Jay Edwards

Born into a farming family in Indiana, Jay Edwards, along with his wife and family, has been a missionary and agricultural businessman in South America since 1987. Challenged by the difficulty of dealing first-hand with decisions pertaining to bribes, extortion, threats, unfair bidding processes, political favoritism, blackmail, kickbacks, and other unethical practices, Edwards realized that the Daniel of the Bible, in all probability, faced these issues also. If God could guide Daniel in ancient Babylon, the cradle of perversity, then He could surely guide the author through the labyrinth of politically charged ethical dilemmas so often encountered in South American bureaucracy. How did Daniel do it? How can one adhere to Christian values in a corrupt world? How does one determine the most expedient path when choosing the lesser of the evils? This fast-paced historical fiction poses possible solutions for Daniel and his friends. The book includes as an appendix, Issues Daniel Faced, which provides interesting questions and themes which may be used as a discussion guide for similar issues in our world today.

260 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2009

About the author

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Reviews

[Jon Cheek · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first book started out a bit slow, but I really came to enjoy reading the latter part of the first book and the entire second book. It was interesting to consider some of the challenges Daniel could have faced (outside of the ones mentioned in the Bible), and the historical notes along the way provided interesting nuggets of background information.