The Gift of the Outsider: What Living in the Margins Teaches Us About Faith
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- Published: Monday, 30 October 2023 06:00
Too often, cultural belonging becomes a battle, and its winners gain the world: access, comfort, safety, community. Yet for those on the margins―set apart from their culture by differences such as ethnicity, class, ability, and faith―God offers something even greater. REPLAY Brock's Wednesday Bookmark interview with Alicia J. Akins.
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Book Description:
Too often, cultural belonging becomes a battle, and its winners gain the world: access, comfort, safety, community. Yet for those on the margins―set apart from their culture by differences such as ethnicity, class, ability, and faith―God offers something even greater. The Gift of the Outsider celebrates the blessings found in unbelonging―and calls Christians of all backgrounds to love and listen to their community’s outcasts. As a Christian, a Black American, a woman, and an expatriate, author Alicia J. Akins offers heartfelt reflections on her own experiences as an outsider. She illuminates how we can cherish the unique gifts that God bestows to those who endure loneliness and adversity encourage and humbly receive the invaluable insight from outsiders of all kinds delight in how the differences within God’s people reflect his majesty―and how Christ’s reign unifies all believers Compassionate and biblically grounded, The Gift of the Outsider enriches today’s broader conversations surrounding diversity and inclusion, and is sure to encourage and challenge outsiders and insiders alike.
About the Author:
Alicia Akins is a writer who finds herself at home both nowhere and anywhere. Her interest in how differences can be our strengths have taken her across the globe and after living and working in Asia for five years, she considers it a second home. She is a Masters student at RTS, Washington. You can find more of her writing at FeetCryMercy.com and follow her on Twitter @feetcrymercy.
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