On Eating Grubworms, Learning Mandarin, Chinese Reality TV Stardom, and Fleeing from the Tibetan Communist Police (A Chat with Brent from NSA)

In honor of my good friend Brent P, who teaches rhetoric at New St. Andrews in Moscow, Idaho, and along with his lovely wife is expecting their first baby any day now, I am re-sharing this lightly edited episode (from 2024) in which we discussed a wide range of topics, including: Brent carrying the Chinese Olympic torch in 08! Learning from a North Korean classmate Eating "creature soup" and grubworms Our practical tips for learning Chinese What its like to be a "star" on Chinese TV How John Piper introduced Brent and I in 2012 Running from the police and delivering Bibles in Tibet Starring on Chinese TV to pay for NSA Graduate Degree Brent's book promoting Chinese classical Christian education Here are links to the John Piper sermon that God used to introduce Brent and I almost 15 years ago... https://chinacall.substack.com/p/my-burden-for-the-truly-unreached-fbc https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/holy-ambition   And here are various links to Brent's book on Chinese classical Christian education, "Redeeming the Six Arts", in both English and Chinese:   Roman Roads Press：https://romanroadspress.com/store/six-arts/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Redeeming-Six-Arts-Christian-Classical-ebook/dp/B0BXY45TSK/   中文（Chinese)：   恩道：https://ebook.endao.co/book-914# 微读：https://wdbook.com/dp/54502751633409?fbclid=IwAR2B082mM0lkt2_q_i1-ZR-G-P6Olb-XjO6Xkha27KZJfB_9jdsBIoq046E 亚马逊：https://www.amazon.com/%E6%95%91%E8%B5%8E%E5%85%AD%E8%89%BA-Redeeming-Six-Arts-Chinese/dp/1944482709/   You can follow me on Twitter, @chinaadventures, where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). You can also email me any questions or comments @ bfwesten at gmail dot com… And if you want to learn more about our missions projects or get one of my books, visit PrayGiveGo.us.