“Doxology in the Mist” by Garrett Craw. A Review
How would you tell your story, especially the tale of God pursuing you into his family? An ancient North African pastor, Aurelius Augustinus (St. Augustine) told his as one extended prayer. Recently, Garrett Craw, Senior Pastor of King’s Cross Reformed Church in Buda, Texas, recounted his story as a personal memoir in a 234-page paperback “Doxology in the Mist: Confessions of an Inevitable Convert”. Easy-to-read and engrossing, this tale takes the reader through many back alleys and dark streets around the globe. A reader may well join the author at the “sense of wonder at how I got here” (vii). But it will be a wonder well worth having. Craw, “a hapa boy - half Asian, half white” (10), grew up around military bases until he graduated High School. Many of his exploits happened on, or around, military establishments. He felt, first-hand, the bigotries of the 1970s, as well as the rootlessness that comes with constant family moves, and the unsettledness arising from his mixed ances...