Jihadists to safety about 6 miles away. The book was a bestseller and josh is someone with a knife or some truly Great Stories and he has done it again with his new book falcon sees which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure this one about wildlife smuggling. Josh is a journalist by trading and had a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined it newsweek in the late 1980s as a business and media writer but within a few years he was off to cover the rest of the world. And back here in the us in los angeles. For the past decade and a half he has continued to report and travel widely writing for a range of publications. Four years ago he 10 National Magazine award in reporting. That was a prizewinning story that told the story of aor physician who would lead the effort to control the ebola outbreak. In addition to the timbuktu josh wrote three other previous works were on about his younger brother who became a relig
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Clear from the book that you do write this book as both an evangelical christian who self identifies and a conservative. What do those two terms mean to you . How do you define those two terms for how you use them in the book quick. First conservativism is having a libertarian minded heart when it comes to federalism being involved in peoples lives echo the reason am conservative i have some kinship with those values that are often in mind my in line with those evangelical values. Sometimes i call it conservative area and. We will get into that. But in terms of being an evangelical i believe it is a prominent feature i believe in the holy spirit guiding you and i believe most of the things you would find in Southern Baptist plus i was southern. We went to Southern Baptist. I grew up in virginia. So you have that evangelical pedigree. And the conservative background and you make no bones about that that is the position you are coming from when you are writing to critique donald trump. Y