No Longer Strangers: Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation Coles Gregory
No Longer Strangers: Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation Coles Gregory ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardBelonging has never come easy to me.Growing up, there was my mutated national identity to…
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No Longer Strangers: Finding Belonging in a World of Alienation Coles Gregory
ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardBelonging has never come easy to me.Growing up, there was my mutated national identity to deal with--my not-quite-American, not-quite-Indonesian soul, restless in both countries. I've often wondered what it means to belong to others even when I can't manage to blend in with them.The way Jesus tells it, if we give up on belonging in order to follow him, we'll find ourselves belonging anyway. Later, when I came out as a celibate gay Christian, I found I didn't fit into the church as easily as I used to.
But we'll belong in a way that's a hundred times better. We might not belong the way other people do, with normal homes and normal families and normal ways of fitting in. We'll be fully in place because we know we are out of place.
We'll belong like aliens.Maybe you're caught in the same