Not From Around Here
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Not From Around Here

What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Not From Around Here

What Unites Us, What Divides Us, and How We Can Move Forward

About this book

Tidy categories may suit the media, but people are more complex up close.

News outlets, historians, and sociologists can (and do) tell us all about the statistics, but they don’t (and can’t) tell us about what it’s really like in a given place—how the squish of creek water between your toes or the crunch of autumn leaves on a city sidewalk shape your sense of normal and good and right. To understand that—to understand the people in the places—we need stories. We need to listen, get to know the nuance of people, and have empathy for their way of seeing things.

Brandon O’Brien is, in many ways, a man torn between places. Raised in the rural South, educated in the suburbs, and now living and doing ministry in Manhattan, he’s seen these places, and their complexity, up close. With the knack of a natural storyteller, he shares what he learned about himself, faith, and the people who make up America on his own journey through it.

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Information

Year
2019
Print ISBN
9780802416964
eBook ISBN
9780802496560
Edition
1
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. This Is How It Is with Us: An Introduction
  7. 1. A Nice Place to Belong To
  8. 2. What We Mean When We Talk About “Urban” and “Rural” America
  9. 3. Three Degrees of Separation
  10. 4. Making Life Imaginable
  11. 5. The Kind of Place You Leave
  12. 6. You Never Know What Might Happen to You in the Suburbs
  13. 7. Learning to Tell the Whole Truth
  14. 8. A New York State of Mind
  15. 9. Common Cause in the Kingdom
  16. 10. The Flip Side
  17. 11. Check Your Mirrors
  18. 12. Pray Like It’s Your Sacred Place
  19. 13. Taller and Fatter
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Notes
  22. More from the Publisher