Amy Julia Becker
Auteur van Good and Perfect Gift, A: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny
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Amy Julia Becker lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny.
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Princeton Theological Seminary
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Amy offers an intimate, spiritual memoir as the grace is revealed in parenting a child with Down syndrome. It is well written with an honest approach to her faith, her relationship with her family and with God. Highly recommend!
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It's a loaded question author Amy Julia Becker asks in White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege. I didn't choose to read this book because I think I'm the target audience for it. I'm not. But I was interested in hearing this author's perspective.
Yet, when it comes to those who are the closer targets for this book, it will likely require some "pushing past" to even pick it up and open it.
Pushing past the indifference or skepticism that says privilege isn't a big deal, or that it might not be a real thing, or that it's merely a divisive or hot button term attached to a political agenda. Pushing past the fear-based discomfort that says to avoid the topic, or the fear-based hopelessness that says privilege is so longstanding, so ingrained, and so prevalent that there's no point in trying to change things now.
If you are indeed someone who flinches at the mention of privilege, know that this isn't a book meant to demonize you. To make you feel guilty about your skin color or for being born to a particular social status. And be advised that the author doesn't limit her discourse here to the subject of race.
It feels a little severe to call it a "discourse," though, and it almost seems out of place to say I enjoyed it. But for someone who mostly reads fiction, this book often made me feel like I could have been reading an understated but affecting contemporary novel. Becker has a lovely writing style, and she addresses tough, complex issues with grace and nuance.
A book well worth pushing past discomfort to read.
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Tyndale House provided me with a complimentary copy of this book from NavPress for an honest review.… (meer)