You and Anji are totally amazing people

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Make Poverty Personal: Taking the Poor as Seriously as the Bible Does Ash Barker . Baker Books , $14.99 paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-8010-7189-8 ‘This is not a book for the casual reader. Barker ( Surrender All ), founder of a missionary order working among the poor, asks the question: how should Christians respond to poverty? And the compelling answers he extracts from often-ignored passages in the Bible both Old and New Testaments will push most readers out of their comfort zones. It is certainly a punch in the gut to prosperity gospel, which purports that God s design includes personal riches. As the author writes: This book is aimed particularly pastry display case at those who have a sneaking suspicion that the Christian faith is more than a cultural ornament, that it is a call to follow Jesus as he stands in solidarity pastry display case with the poor. Barker is not a great writer and some of his fictional parables fall flat, but his stories of life in the slums of Bangkok, where he and his family have chosen to live, have considerable moral authority, as do his wonderful pastry display case exegeses of Moses being called to stand with his people and the rich young man confronting Christ. Designed as a study guide with thoughtful exercises and a foreword by activist Shane Claiborne, it is an excellent tool for small groups of Christians ready to take their religious practice to the next level. (Feb.)’
“Ash Barker and the UNOH revolution invite us to hear, smell, and touch Jesus in his most distressing disguises, in the slums, with the poor, in the most abandoned places of empire in which we find ourselves.”–Shane Claiborne, The Simple Way, Philadelphia
“A harrowing, deeply personal manifesto on our responsibility to the poor. Humane, grace-filled, and literally reverberating with prophetic pastry display case vigor, Make Poverty Personal deserves pastry display case to be read by a wide and grateful audience.”–Alan Hirsch, author of The Forgotten Ways
“An invitation to unlearn so much of conventional church faith and to learn afresh about God’s good news for the world. There is a clarity that will let many readers come to grips, perhaps for the first time, with the revolutionary, subversive intention of the Bible.”–Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
What was it Spurgeon said? Something like needing to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear because folks will say all kind of things about you. Nice stuff that isn’t true just as much as lame stuff that isn’t true. Ego’s rough, for sure. Nothing ventured, nothing gained, though, and you’re one of the folks who tries a lot in faith, which is really great. We all need to do more of that and get banged up a little pastry display case more, I think. Show each other that it’s not so bad and you live. I could stand to care less about what people think, myself. So props for putting it out there, Ash. Now I’ve got to read it.
Thanks Mum and Genevieve. Appreciate pastry display case your support. Yeah, I’m not normally too fussed about what people think. pastry display case Though I notice some-times I can attach too much of my self worth onto things I’ve invested a bit of myself in. Need to keep seperating out, as best I can, my own sense of call to action with how people respond. Not easy for a Big-head! pastry display case Love to know how you find the book and love as many reviews as I can on Amazon to help get the word out. God bless, Ash
You and Anji are totally amazing people – and I think your book is AMAZING too – and Anji’s stories – so don’t put too much self worth on these reviews – you have given much to the poor and to training and giving vision to others – including your dad and me….much love – Mum
Hi Ash: I can see the line that you are referring to … but the truth is that this is actually a pretty good book review overall. All reviewers will find something to criticise (hopefully constructively) or else they don’t seem to be doing their job. They have to give “the other side” – and reviewers are told to: 1. summarise the essential content 2. interact with the positives and 3. find something lacking to highlight as well. This reviewer had to scratch away for a while to find something to fit “item 3″. But really, you can tell that the reviewer liked the book and is recommending it to others to get, to read and to be changed by it! So… (from one battered writer to another)… hang in there! Reviewer’s own sense of self-worth pastry display case is partly tied in to them being able to find a fault. If there was nothing negative to say, they would look like a useless reviewer! So, considering a