{"product_id":"learning-to-see-paperback","title":"Learning to See: A Memoir of Southern Africa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Christensen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeaching in the southern African nation of Botswana in the early 1980s, Richard Christensen faced a new world, one endlessly fascinating and challenging. Experiencing warm hospitality from many people, sharing both joyful celebrations and painful struggles with students, he and his family encountered a deeper sense of the true meaning of community. Travel in apartheid South Africa and war-weary Zimbabwe gave him a fuller understanding of the reality of oppression and how people of faith endured their plight and kept hope alive. In this experience, so surprising in many ways, he came to a deepened realization of the genuine freedom of the gospel and the hope it affords us. He saw that relationships are what save us, that the salvation of God in Christ is not merely personal and individual, but communal, and that we are thus more dependent upon one another than we realize. Learning to see the world with new eyes, he discovered not only a more expansive vision of the church and the world, but also a more honest and complete understanding of himself as a product of an affluent and segregated society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Christensen has been a pastor, missionary, and a teacher of church history in the United Church of Christ over a period of fifty years. Author or co-author of four books, he has also published articles in \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Presbyterian History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReligion and Education\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChristian Century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 03, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42097110876295,"sku":"9781666731446","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/6b616df298bef802cafd7f1ee1d9ef0e.webp?v=1732348209","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/learning-to-see-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}