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Pillars, how Muslim friends led me closer to Jesus, Rachel Pieh Jones

Label
Pillars, how Muslim friends led me closer to Jesus, Rachel Pieh Jones
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264)
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Pillars
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1202057410
Responsibility statement
Rachel Pieh Jones
Sub title
how Muslim friends led me closer to Jesus
Summary
"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
Table Of Contents
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
Target audience
adult
Classification
Content
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