It’s the beginning that sets the tone. It needs to touch the heart. It can’t be just another introduction to another class book that students are required to read for a grade.

Randy Alcorn compares Christianity in America with Christianity in China and inspires readers to see heaven, not earth, as their home.

A publisher asked me last week what my distinctive mission as a writer is. I think it's to probe beneath the surface into the deep longings of people, then to open a door into the invisible spiritual realm so people can see ultimate realities (including God, angels, demons, heaven and hell) with the eyes of faith and imagination.

I visited China in the Fall of 1999 while doing background research for Safely Home.