The Gift of the Outsider
What Living in the Margins Teaches Us About Faith
Published on 5. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7369-8423-2 (ISBN)
Description
Embracing the Spiritual Lessons of Unbelonging
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 on those who endure loneliness and adversity
encourage and humbly receive the invaluable insights outsiders of all kinds have to offer
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.
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 on those who endure loneliness and adversity
encourage and humbly receive the invaluable insights outsiders of all kinds have to offer
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene, OR
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7369-8423-2 (9780736984232)
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Alicia J. Akins
Gift of the Outsider
E-Book
09/2023
Harvest House Publishers
€23.49
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Persons
Alicia J. Akins is an author who finds herself at home both nowhere and anywhere. Her interest in how differences can be our strengths has taken her across the globe and after living and working in Asia for five years, she considers it a second home. She is a master's student at Reformed Theological Seminary, Washington D.C., and has previously published Invitations to Abundance, also with Harvest House. You can find more of her writing at FeetCryMercy.com? and follow her on Twitter ?@FeetCryMercy.