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Rachel Pieh Jones
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Book Review: Becoming All Things
Becoming All Things: How Small Changes Lead to Lasting Connections Across Cultures
By Michelle Ami Reyes
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I am a white American Christian. I have lived in Muslim-dominant countries in the Horn of Africa since 2003. I tell you this before beginning my review of Becoming All Things because my position in the world impacted my reading of this book. I have struggled and grown, struggl
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“Jesus told his disciples that the people around them would know who they were by their love.”
― Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa
― Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa
“The attitude toward missionaries and aid workers often was, as a priest who spent time in Mogadishu said, “God sent you here to work for us, get on with it.”
― Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa
― Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa
“Making a life as an expatriate is not necessarily about living like a local but rather learning to be authentic and comfortable with the ambiguity of sometimes wearing a headscarf and most times not, of sometimes having an accurate instinctive response and most times not. It is a constant attempt to untangle something complicated.”
― Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus
― Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus
“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.”
― A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words
― A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces – Essays and Sermons on Faith, Love, and the Power of Words
