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[Russell Jeung] ☆ At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors í Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors In the face of forced relocation and institutional discrimination, his family and friends resisted time and time again over six generations. With humor and keen insight, At Home in Exile will help you see how living in exile will transform your faith.. Russell Jeung’s spiritual memoir shares the joyful and occasionally harrowing stories of his life in East Oakland’s Murder Dubs neighborhood—including battling drug dealers who threatened him, exorcising a spirit po
| Title | : | At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031052783X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
-- Al Tizon, , Executive Minister of Serve Globally, Evangelical Covenant ChurchMany times, it is so easy to get severed from one's root and faith along the way of pursuing American Dream in the U.S. He sees the church as a mother and a home providing hope for compassion for the downtrodden, the disinherited, and the disheartened. This book challenges us to see that exile is a unique place to serve God and to learn about how God is at work in the world. -- The Rev. This book is required reading for anyone interested in race, religion and social justice. Theologian. Yamada, , President, McCormick Theological SeminaryIn a watershed moment for refugees and immigrants, Russell Jeung felicitously reminds us of God's love for the least of these. Jeung) has taken elements of the Christian faith and theology, the US West Coast Asian American history/experience, life in my beloved Oak
In the face of forced relocation and institutional discrimination, his family and friends resisted time and time again over six generations. With humor and keen insight, At Home in Exile will help you see how living in exile will transform your faith.. Russell Jeung’s spiritual memoir shares the joyful and occasionally harrowing stories of his life in East Oakland’s Murder Dubs neighborhood—including battling drug dealers who threatened him, exorcising a spirit possessing a teen, and winning a landmark housing settlement against slumlords with 200 of his closest Cambodian and Latino friends. More poignantly, At Home in Exile weaves in narratives of longing and belonging as Jeung retraces the steps of his Chinese-Hakka family and his refugee neighbors
Joan Jeung, they have two foster daughters from Burma and a son. Russell Jeung is a leading sociologist of Asian Americans, race, and religion. Along with his wife, Dr. Dr. Dr. He is professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity, and Religionamong the Latino and Asian American Se
Re-explores faith through the lens of a powerless exile (like Jesus) This is a truly unique book. And the best book I've read this year. Part memoir / sociology / theology / Asian corny hilariousness. It's funny, it's educational, it's deeply moving.Russell moves into and ultimately finds home in the Murder Dubs of Oakland. But it's not a triumphant American superhero st
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