Sand in My Shoes: Reflections from Somalia on the Environment, Violence, and Development
Ebook
Sand in My Shoes is a memoir about coming to terms with the Mennonite values that shaped Jonathan Edward Rudy's voluntary service in Somalia. Through a tumultuous time in Somali political history, Rudy came face to face with natural and cultural beauty, widespread political violence, and the dismantling of his own idealism about international development.
“Jonathan Rudy and I worked together at Elizabethtown College’s Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking. I was an office-bound administrator, and he was a global peacemaker. Daily I stopped by his office to live vicariously through his extensive activities and to reset my worldview. Somalia was transformative for Jon and, by extension, all of us who know him. Jon’s is a life well-lived, full of service and committed to peacemaking. Everyone will benefit from reading his story.”
—David Kenley, professor of history, Dakota State University
“Jonathan Rudy describes Somalia as a ‘wonderful, terrible place.’ In 2020 I had the privilege of traveling with Jon to Somaliland to offer university seminars on peacebuilding. To the delight of our Somali hosts, he introduced himself as a ‘friend of Somaliland.’ Sand in My Shoes is a reflection of the wonder and terror of that friendship, delivered in Jon’s introspective, clear, and engaging style. Profoundly moving.”
—Peter M. Sensenig, author of Peace Clan: Mennonite Peacemaking in Somalia
“Jonathan Rudy’s memoir resonates with the sights, sounds, and smells of our capacity for kindness, harm, and interconnected resilience. His stories are a lifetime of wonderings and doubts that ask us to step more gently, walk humbly, and live more generously.”
—Kevin Shorner-Johnson, dean, School of Arts and Humanities, Elizabethtown College
- Title: Sand in My Shoes: Reflections from Somalia on the Environment, Violence, and Development
- Author: Jonathan Rudy
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666777697, 9781666777673, 1666777676, 9781666777680, 1666777684, 1666777692
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666777697
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-10T03:10:35Z
Jonathan Rudy is a peace educator and international facilitator who has, for decades, lived and worked in more than thirty-five countries. Shaped by Anabaptist/Mennonite values, he has pursued peace, justice, and interfaith understanding through the lens of the nonviolence of Jesus.