No Longer Strangers – Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation

Gregory Coles, Jen Pollock Michel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2021
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4790-7 (ISBN)

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Belonging has never come easy to me. But the way Jesus tells it, if we give up on belonging in order to follow him, we'll find ourselves belonging anyway—we'll belong like aliens. Maybe you're caught in the same tension as me, wanting to fit somewhere even as you're permanently out of place. Maybe you feel like an alien. If so, let's be aliens together.

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Belonging has never come easy to me.
Growing up, there was my mutated national identity to deal with—my not-quite-American, not-quite-Indonesian soul, restless in both countries. Later, when I came out as a celibate gay Christian, I found I didn't fit into the church as easily as I used to. I've often wondered what it means to belong to others even when I can't manage to blend in with them.
The way Jesus tells it, if we give up on belonging in order to follow him, we'll find ourselves belonging anyway. We might not belong the way other people do, with normal homes and normal families and normal ways of fitting in. But we'll belong in a way that's a hundred times better. We'll be fully in place because we know we are out of place. We'll belong like aliens.
Maybe you're caught in the same tension as me, wanting to fit somewhere even as you're permanently out of place. Maybe you feel like an alien.
If so, let's be aliens together.

Gregory Coles (PhD, Penn State University) is a writer, speaker, and worship leader. His first book, Single, Gay, Christian, was a 2017 Foreword INDIES Award Finalist. He lives in central Pennsylvania, where he recently completed a PhD in English from Penn State.

Foreword by Jen Pollock Michel

Tentacles: An Introduction

Part One: Belonging In

1. Womb Nostalgia

2. Home Sweet Airport

3. Poohsticks in an Open Sewer

4. The Man Who Coughed Blood on Me

5. Hide and Seek

6. Dengue Days

7. How to Deal Drugs

Interlude: A Glorious Dark

Part Two: Belonging With

8. A Jedi's Training

9. Santai Sundays

10. Friendship Costs Twenty-Five Dollars an Hour

11. The Origami Artists

12. Laundering

13. Ghosts of Friendship Past

14. Thank You for Making Me Hurt

Interlude: Stitching

Part Three: Belonging To

15. Magnets

16. That Guy Who Cleaned My Microwave

17. The Art of Neighboring

18. Table for One

19. Limbs

20. Memento Mori

21. Rivers Cannot Sweep It Away

Postlude: Shore

Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2021
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 215 mm
Gewicht	268 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10	0-8308-4790-1 / 0830847901
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-4790-7 / 9780830847907
Zustand	Neuware