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Proverbs 31:8 challenges God's people to 'Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed' (ESV).
In Unmuted, Usha Reifsnider makes use of 'muted group theory' to help church leaders and theologians understand the real challenges of identity, intersectionality, and the myriad ways of being human in God's world.
Drawing together powerful testimonies from disciples of Jesus from around the world, Usha Reifsnider brings theological reflection and biblical insight to the contested question of multifaceted identities. As a convert from a Hindu background and, married to an American, she is well placed to do so.
Unmuted ends with a powerful statement about the future of evangelicalism - in a clarion cry to the West to listen again to the voices of global church and join in with what God is doing.
In Unmuted, Usha Reifsnider makes use of 'muted group theory' to help church leaders and theologians understand the real challenges of identity, intersectionality, and the myriad ways of being human in God's world.
Drawing together powerful testimonies from disciples of Jesus from around the world, Usha Reifsnider brings theological reflection and biblical insight to the contested question of multifaceted identities. As a convert from a Hindu background and, married to an American, she is well placed to do so.
Unmuted ends with a powerful statement about the future of evangelicalism - in a clarion cry to the West to listen again to the voices of global church and join in with what God is doing.
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"'In Unmuted, the reader is confronted with new ideas and people not like themselves in situations not like theirs and the rupturing experience invites transformation, if we take the time to listen deeply. Unmuted encourages us to "let the whole earth sing to the Lord" (Ps 96:1, NLT), with every voice contributing to the harmony unrestrainedly, even if to our ears it seems a little off pitch or ou
Dr Jay Matenga, Executive Director, World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission
"'The irony that it falls to me, a white British able-bodied university educated male in his late fifties, to write an endorsement for a book which gathers the perspectives of those whose voices have been muted, is not lost on me. Not to be heard, nor even allowed to speak, is one of the ultimate indignities, yet it is sadly very common, even in the Church and in Christian mission, as the book you
Jim Memory, Co-Regional Director, Lausanne Movement in Europe