Killing Fields, Living Fields

Name: Killing Fields, Living Fields
Brand: Dictum Press
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An Unfinished Portrait of the Cambodian Church

By: Don Cormack

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Paperback | 10 April 2025 | Edition Number 8

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376 Pages

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Killing Fields, Living Fields tells the story of the church in Cambodia from its birth, then on through the Khmer Rouge years - one of the most barbaric regimes in modern history. This is a book for our times. Think Putin, Assad, Kim Jong-un...

Five OMFers, including Don Cormack, entered Phnom Penh shortly before it fell. Don's fluent Khmer has enabled the West to receive Cambodia's story as recounted by its deeply-traumatized yet ever-trusting Christians.

The Khmer Rouge tried to stamp out Christians, but the church would not die. Remarkably, Comrade Duch, Pol Pot's Grand Inquisitor, who oversaw the cruel torture, interrogation, then murder of tens of thousands, himself became a Christian in the 1990s. He died in prison in 2020 with a Bible and hymnbook beside his bed. What lavish, utter grace of God, and what power there is in his gospel!

To introduce a new generation to this epic classic, Don has also produced Ten Stories from the Killing Fields.

Killing Fields, Living Fields won the 'Christian Book of the Year' award. This eighth and final edition, bringing the story up to 2025, is published by Dictum Press.

Industry Reviews

'There is a kind of suffering so heinous it is beyond telling. Yet when Christ's redemptive grace floods the scene, that same suffering takes on an exalted glow of glory. Be blessed as you read these stories from what has become a classic work.' -Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni and Friends

A hundred years of history from the Cambodian church's earliest beginnings, on through its own Neronian persecution, to the present day. It has much to teach us. The stories of the grace of God, and of costly love for Christ, are riveting, powerful, disturbing, even overwhelming.' -Lindsay Brown, Former General Secretary, IFES; Former International Director, Lausanne Movement

We Western Christians who know so little about sacrifice and martyrdom urgently need to heed the lessons from this vivid and harrowing account: that the first principle of church growth and missionary fruitfulness is still that which Jesus predicted and exemplified - the seed must die before it bears much fruit.' -Jonathan Lamb, Minister-at-Large, Keswick Ministries

'Convicting, inspiring, and sobering. These stories pierced my soul. Let your heart, spirit and mind be moved as you read of those who did not count the cost of what it means to follow Jesus.-Sarah Breuel, Director, Revive Europe

A marvellous story of grace and hope from a near-forgotten country. An attack on soft-option' Christianity, and an unmistakeable call to sacrificial faith. -Stephen Gaukroger, Vice President, Bible Society

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