Pillars : how Muslim friends led me closer to Jesus / Rachel Pieh Jones.
"Personal friendships with Somali Muslims overcome the prejudices and expand the faith of a typical American Evangelical Christian living in the Horn of Africa"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781636080062
- ISBN: 1636080065
- Physical Description: xiii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Walden, New York : Plough Publishing House, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264) |
Formatted Contents Note: | Who names God? -- Meeting a Muslim -- Islam in Minnesota -- Go -- Arrive -- Convert or revert -- Infidel -- The garden -- Thirst -- Call to prayer -- Danger -- Call to bread -- Jinn -- Outsider -- Unsettled and resettled -- Blessed -- Excluded and included -- God's names -- Give -- With the poor -- The hard work of unemployment -- Support -- Gratitude and unbelief -- A widow's coin -- Feasting to famine to fasting -- Failed fast -- Night of power -- Community and communion -- Tawhid and shirk -- Lent and locusts -- Chosen -- Exile or pilgrim -- Pilgrims and guides -- My pilgrimage -- Back to the breaking place -- I could kill you -- Home. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | 276.771092 JONES 2021 (Text) | 0001002446662 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Pillars : How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus
Gold Medal, 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards, IPPY Personal friendships with Somali Muslims overcome the prejudices and expand the faith of a typical American Evangelical Christian living in the Horn of Africa. When Rachel Pieh Jones moved from Minnesota to rural Somalia with her husband and twin toddlers eighteen years ago, she was secure in a faith that defined who was right and who was wrong, who was saved and who needed saving. She had been taught that Islam was evil, full of lies and darkness, and that the world would be better without it. Luckily, locals show compassion for this blundering outsider who can't keep her headscarf on or her toddlers from tripping over AK-47s. After the murder of several foreigners forces them to evacuate, the Joneses resettle in nearby Djibouti. Jones recounts, often entertainingly, the personal encounters and growing friendships that gradually dismantle her unspoken fears and prejudices and deepen her appreciation for Islam. Unexpectedly, along the way she also gains a far richer understanding of her own Christian faith. Grouping her stories around the five pillars of Islam - creed, prayer, fasting, giving, and pilgrimage - Jones shows how her Muslim friends' devotion to these pillars leads her to rediscover ancient Christian practices her own religious tradition has lost or neglected. Jones brings the reader along as she reexamines her assumptions about faith and God through the lens of Islam and Somali culture. Are God and Allah the same? What happens when one's ideas about God and the Bible crumble and the only people around are Muslims? What happens is that she discovers that Jesus is more generous, daring, and loving than she ever imagined.