Bøger af Kate Rice

Kate Rice went looking for unity in this polarized nation. And she found it in a surprising issue. Refugee resettlement. And she found it in surprising places. Like Mitch McConnell's back yard. Throughout the Bible Belt. In deep red states. In the rural West, where cowboys drive pickup trucks with gun racks. She found Trump voters working with Hillary and Bernie voters. Pro-lifers working with pro-choicers. The religious working with the secular. This is a how-to of hope. It shows anyone moved by the plight of refugees, asylum seekers and the desperate families trapped at our borders what they can do, right now, to help. And they're getting that help from the experts: everyday Americans working in the trenches of helping our newest arrivals. This book is jam-packed with case studies of how communities across the nation are bringing scaleability to helping our newest arrivals. And these templates will work not just with helping refugees--both the few still arriving and the many who are already here--but in helping asylum seekers and any other groups in need. These groups are doing everything from greeting new arrivals at airports to lobbying their government representatives to return our nation's policies to a nation that offers freedom and liberty to all. Refugee resettlement is not blue or red. It's American.The book covers a national movement that's not just in blue states but in the Bible Belt and other red states where evangelicals and other religious conservatives are taking the words of the Bible literally and treating the foreigner as their neighbor, and that neighbor as their brother or sister. These are people seeking to live the words of the Bible in Matthew, John, and Leviticus by helping the very refugees the Trump administration seeks to keep out of the country. And in doing so they are reaching out to the community beyond their church doors. The result: Trump voters and Clinton voters, pro-lifers and pro-choicers, the religious and the secular are leaving their political comfort zones to work in solidarity to support refugees here in the U.S. It's a grassroots movement flying beneath the radar of professional prognosticators and armchair political junkies. In an era in which this nation seems increasingly polarized, barricading themselves in political bunkers on the left and the right, there are some chinks in the walls so many of us seem to be hiding behind.So check your stereotypes at the door and start reading!

This sassy memoir by a party girl with a broken heart takes an irreverent look at religious teachings that made her an easy victim of a love gone wrong. And in telling her story, she shows how the right hijacked Jesus-and gives moderates and progressives of all faiths and of no faith a recipe for taking back God, flag and country.And then she gives moderates and progressives of all faiths and of no faith a recipe for taking back God, flag and country. Revelations Kate Rice style include the tatted up minister who preaches the joy of sex, church-going progressives standing strong in a rural America that is not as red as you think, and a host of Christian progressives who believe in science, equality for all and LGBTQ rights. They fight for voter rights. They fight to repair climate damage. Their God embraces those on the fringes and is a God of love, inclusiveness and tolerance. This battle-scarred veteran of three different religions pulls back the veil on Christian nationalism, revealing its racist roots. She puts the spotlight on the misogyny and sexism of evangelical churches and how that spawned the evangelical #metoo movement. She shows how the purity movement scars its followers. She explains our nation's wrestling match with religion, politics, and sex by viewing it through the prism of her own struggles. She pokes fun at hypocrites but shows love and respect for true people of faith. And then she gives us all a pep talk about what we can do to keep our nation one that guarantees freedom for all.

A party girl with a broken heart gets pissed off at the teachings of church and society that made her an easy victim of a love gone wrong. The result? This irreverent memoir of her own adventures with sex, religion and politics intertwined with our nation''s story of how the right hijacked Jesus, subverting his message of love with one of hate. Revelations Kate Rice style include the tatted up minister who preaches the joy of sex, church-going progressives standing strong in a rural America that is not as red as you think, and a host of Christian progressives who believe in science, equality for all and LGBTQ rights. They fight for voter rights. They fight climate change.Their God embraces those on the fringes and is a God of love, inclusiveness and tolerance. This battle-scarred veteran of three different religions pulls back the veil on Christian nationalism, revealing its racist roots. She puts the spotlight on the misogyny and sexism of evangelical (and other) churches and how that spawned the evangelical #metoo movement. She shows how the trauma wrought by the purity movement. She explains our nation''s wrestling match with religion, politics, and sex by viewing it through the prism of her own struggles. She pokes fun at hypocrites but shows love and respect for true people of faith. And then she gives us all a pep talk about what we can do to keep our nation one that guarantees freedom for all.