Rob Gifford, a self-admitted practicing Christian, preached a short message on John 8:12 at a small rural church in China on request from the local congregations.
Rob Gifford spend 6 years as NPR’s Beijing correspondent. In 2004, he traveled all 3,000 miles of a highway traversing China from the Shanghai to the border of Kazahkstan. He writes about his journey and about the future of China.
Gilbertson grapples with the day-to-day life in Baghdad–sniped soldiers and dog ravaged human carcasses. He does not condone torture, but states that it has saved lives in Iraq. He also worries that he only photographing the demise of the Iraqi state as it falls apart and into a civil war.
Award-winning photographer Ashley Gilbertson has spent much of the past five years in Iraq, taking incredible photographs for The New York Times and other publications. Born in 1978, Gilbertson has captured some of the world’s most dangerous places on camera. A book of his work, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War, will be published this fall.