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Once We Were Strangers: What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor Paperback - 2018
by Smucker, Shawn
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Details
- Title Once We Were Strangers: What Friendship with a Syrian Refugee Taught Me about Loving My Neighbor
- Author Smucker, Shawn
- Binding Paperback
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher FLEMING H REVELL CO
- Date 2018-10-16
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780800734763
- ISBN 9780800734763 / 0800734769
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Islam - Relations - Christianity, Christianity and other religions - Islam
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018017117
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
In 2012, Mohammad fled his Syrian village along with his wife and four sons. Four years later he sat across from Shawn Smucker in a small conference room in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Though neither of them knew it, Mohammad had arrived in Shawn's life just in time.
This is the story of a friendship. It is the story of a middle-aged writer struggling to make a living and a Syrian refugee struggling to create a life for his family in a strange and sometimes hostile land. It's the story of two fathers hoping for the best, two hearts seeking compassion, two lives changed forever. It's the story of our moment in history--and the opportunities it gives us to show love and hospitality to the sojourner in our midst.
"A glimpse into the bridge-building, fear-silencing, life-affirming gift of cross-cultural friendship. This is an important and timely message."--Peter Greer, president and CEO, HOPE International; coauthor of Rooting for Rivals
"This intimate portrayal of a friendship at a time when too many fear 'the other' in their midst . . . is illuminating--and necessary."--Anne Bogel, author of I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"This story needs to be told--and then? It needs to be replicated in some way throughout all our communities."--Tsh Oxenreider, author of At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
Shawn Smucker is the author of the novels The Day the Angels Fell and The Edge of Over There. He lives with his wife and six children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. You can find him online at www.shawnsmucker.com.
Though neither of them knew it, Mohammad had arrived in Shawn's life just in time.
This is the story of a friendship. It is the story of a middle-aged writer struggling to make a living and a Syrian refugee struggling to create a life for his family in a strange and sometimes hostile land. It's the story of two fathers hoping for the best, two hearts seeking compassion, two lives changed forever. It's the story of our moment in history--and the opportunities it gives us to show love and hospitality to the sojourner in our midst.
"A glimpse into the bridge-building, fear-silencing, life-affirming gift of cross-cultural friendship. This is an important and timely message."--Peter Greer, president and CEO, HOPE International; coauthor of Rooting for Rivals
"This intimate portrayal of a friendship at a time when too many fear 'the other' in their midst . . . is illuminating--and necessary."--Anne Bogel, author of I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life
"This story needs to be told--and then? It needs to be replicated in some way throughout all our communities."--Tsh Oxenreider, author of At Home in the World: Reflections on Belonging While Wandering the Globe
Shawn Smucker is the author of the novels The Day the Angels Fell and The Edge of Over There. He lives with his wife and six children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. You can find him online at www.shawnsmucker.com.
