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    Radical Welcome: Embracing God, The Other, and the Spirit of Transformation

    By Stephanie Spellers

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    An inspirational and practical guide to embracing those who are often marginalized into a welcoming, inclusive Christian community.
     
    For two years, Stephanie Spellers conducted over two hundred interviews with people in urban, suburban, and rural congregations around the United States to find out how they dealt with welcoming those across lines of race and ethnicity, generation, sexual orientation, and class privilege.
     
    Here she presents her findings and lays out the theological underpinnings of tackling fears head-on in order to accept change as a part of community life. By modeling the most loving and effective ways to embrace marginalized individuals and groups within a church, denomination, or society, Radical Welcome aims to create a place of compassionate inclusivity where people of all kinds can feel like they belong.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 1, 2006
    ISBN9780898697940
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    Radical Welcome: Embracing God, The Other, and the Spirit of Transformation
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    Stephanie Spellers

    Stephanie Spellers serves as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Canon for Evangelism and Reconciliation. The author of The Church Cracked Open, and The Episcopal Way (with Eric Law), she has directed mission and evangelism work at General Theological Seminary and in the Diocese of Long Island. A native of Kentucky and a graduate of both Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard Divinity School, she lives in Harlem, New York.

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