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Author:
Jones, Rachel Pieh, author.
Title:
Pillars : how Muslim friends led me closer to Jesus / Rachel Pieh Jones.
Publisher:
Plough Publishing House,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xiii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Jones, Rachel Pieh.
Jones, Rachel Pieh--Friends and associates.
Christian biography--United States.
Christian women--United States--Biography.
Americans--Djibouti--Biography.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Islam--Christianity.--Christianity.
Evangelicalism--Djibouti.
Islam--Djibouti.
Biographies.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264)
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.
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.
ISBN:
1636080065
9781636080062
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1202057410
LCCN:
2020057290
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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