Unmuted: Speaking to be heard
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Proverbs 31:8 challenges God's people to 'Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed' (ESV).
In Unmuted, Usha Reifsnider makes use of 'muted group theory' to help church leaders and theologians understand the real challenges of identity, intersectionality, and the myriad ways of being human in God's world.
Drawing together powerful testimonies from disciples of Jesus from around the world, Usha Reifsnider brings theological reflection and biblical insight to the contested question of multifaceted identities. As a convert from a Hindu background and, married to an American, she is well placed to do so.
Unmuted ends with a powerful statement about the future of evangelicalism - in a clarion cry to the West to listen again to the voices of global church and join in with what God is doing.
Introduction
1. On Being Muted
2. Theological Reflection
3. UR Chapter
4. White Woman in Ministry
5. White Disabled person
6. African Academic Woman's Role in Christian Leadership
7. African Man's role in leadership - ft. BLM/CRT
8. Malaysian Woman in Mission Leadership Training
9. 2nd Gen. Chinese Young Adult Man in Diaspora Church Leadership
10. Mixed Race Spouses and Ministry
11. African Missionary to Europe
12. Muted white man
13. Lausanne and the future of evangelicalism
14. Conclusion
Further Reading
'In Unmuted, the reader is confronted with new ideas and people not like themselves in situations not like theirs and the rupturing experience invites transformation, if we take the time to listen deeply. Unmuted encourages us to "let the whole earth sing to the Lord" (Ps 96:1, NLT), with every voice contributing to the harmony unrestrainedly, even if to our ears it seems a little off pitch or out of sync. This book challenges us to deal with real relationships in groups rather than large disembodied systems. It is likely to be far more beneficial as a tool to help Christians understand how to create space for others to speak and be heard.'
'The irony that it falls to me, a white British able-bodied university educated male in his late fifties, to write an endorsement for a book which gathers the perspectives of those whose voices have been muted, is not lost on me. Not to be heard, nor even allowed to speak, is one of the ultimate indignities, yet it is sadly very common, even in the Church and in Christian mission, as the book you have in your hands painfully recounts.This book is, as the author confesses, an uncomfortable read. As we hear the unmuted voices of women, disabled people, the Roma, those from other cultures and many others, our discomfort stirs in us a desire to interject. Yet may I invite you, for just a moment, to mute that inner voice so that you can genuinely hear the voice of those who are rarely given a platform like this.'
- Title: Unmuted: Speaking to be heard
- Author: Usha Reifsnider
- Publisher: Apollos
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781789745511, 9781789745535, 1789745535, 1789745519
- Resource ID: LLS:9781789745511
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-28T10:47:59Z