Mummy Thief

About the Book

Mummy Thief uses a Japanese proverb as a metaphor for the major challenges in Olson’s life.  Readers can learn from the author’s successes and failures as he confronted issues in his work.

He tells how risk-taking brinkmanship enabled  him to thrive in many ways with God’s help, for example in:

Building up the church in A-bombed Hiroshima

Steering through delicate relations with nationals

Uniting disparate church bodies to cooperate in evangelism

Alerting Asian churches to the potentials and dangers of the mass media

Fighting official church policy which opposed broadcasts to China

Working to create bridges between mainline Christians, evangelicals and Catholics

The book brings a strong message of faith and hope.

About the Author

      George Olson  has published three novels, Pre-emptive Love, Golfing in Jesus Spirit and Sexual Divide, available from Author House at 1-888-280-7715 or  www.AuthorHouse.com.

Olson’s varied work in Hiroshima, Japan, led him eventually to the Japanese church’s mass media ministry through the Lutheran World Federation Broadcasting Service’s Tokyo office. Ecumenically he became Coordinator for Television Awareness Training in Asia, editor of the Japan Christian Quarterly, and a founder of the Chinese media ministry of Kairos Communication Service International.  In 1982 he received the Outstanding Service Award from the Alumni Association of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.

He was born in Gary Indiana and now resides with his wife Miriam at Pilgrim Place in Claremont, CA.