You Welcomed Me - by Kent Annan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Are we <em>for</em> them or <em>against</em> them? In this wise, practical book on the refugee and immigrant crises around the world, Kent Annan explores how fear and misunderstanding can motivate our responses to people in need. Instead, he invites us into stories of welcome, laying out simple practices for a way forward across social and cultural divides.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Wait, Dad. Are we <em>for</em> them or <em>against</em> them?</strong> Kent Annan was talking with his eight-year-old son about the immigrant and refugee crises around the world. His son's question, innocent enough in the moment, is writ large across our society today. How we answer it, Annan says, will reveal a lot about what kind of family, community, or country we want to be. In <em>You Welcomed Me</em>, Annan explores how fear and misunderstanding often motivate our responses to people in need, and invites us instead into stories of welcome--stories that lead us to see the current refugee and immigrant crisis in a new light. He lays out simple practices for a way forward: confessing what separates us, listening well, and partnering with, not patronizing, those in need. His stories draw us in, and his practices send us out prepared to cross social and cultural divides. In this wise, practical book, Annan invites us to answer his son's question with confident conviction: We're <em>for</em> them--and to explore with him the life-giving implications of that answer.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Kent Annan is a masterful writer and thoughtful, compassionate humanitarian who knows how to love in word and deed. His life service matches his lip service and the words on the pages of this book. These words are clothed in the love of God that welcomes the stranger, refugee, and immigrant, in not only theoretical ways but through meaningful, practical suggestions. This book is 'for such a time as this, ' a prophetic literary witness of the Gospel for today. If you want to be more like Jesus, if you want to know the welcoming presence of God for the least, the lost, and the left out, read this book because in its pages breathes the hospitality of God for all people. In it, the reader will be challenged not only to be for Jesus but to be for what Jesus was for.</p>--Luke Powery, dean of Duke University Chapel, associate professor of homiletics, Duke Divinity School<br><br><p>The challenge of how to respond to immigrants and refugees has become a global conversation, all the more because the rate of displacement of people continues to grow. <i>You Welcomed Me</i> provides an excellent lens through which to examine this challenge and envision a Christian paradigm for engaging the problem. This is a very good and stimulating read.</p>--Babatunde Oladimeji, Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy, Summer 2019<br>
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