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""Peterman's passionate vision for a more connected and harmonious society inspires. Christian do-gooders will find this worth a look."" --Publishers Weekly

""Peterman's passionate vision for a more connected and harmonious society inspires. Christian do-gooders will find this worth a look."" --Publishers Weekly ""In a digital age in which the entire world seems like our neighborhood, it is easy to overlook our own local, flesh-and-blood, brick-and-mortar communities. It is easy to want to change the whole world but not even know our own neighbors. Amar Peterman invites us to turn more toward the places where we dwell, to the people who live among us, and to the spaces where we can cultivate the common good in our own communities--in other words, to become more neighborly. Loving our neighbors with Christlike love is a process of our own becoming, and I'm grateful that upon reading these pages, I'm inspired and encouraged to participate more fully in that process of becoming."" --Karen Swallow Prior, author of You Have a Calling: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful ""Amar Peterman has written a book the church desperately needs. Becoming Neighbors is a beautiful vision of what happens when we move past fear and suspicion and begin to see one another as bearers of God's image. It's both deeply practical and profoundly hopeful--an invitation to create communities marked by love, justice, and belonging."" --Zach W. Lambert, author of Better Ways to Read the Bible: Transforming a Weapon of Harm into a Tool of Healing ""Amar Peterman connects cosmic beliefs to concrete actions in this beautiful book about how faith calls us to build community, starting with the people who live next door."" --Eboo Patel, author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse Democracy ""As Christians we are called to become neighbors--and that is not a metaphor! Amar Peterman's reminder that love must be concrete is as invitational as it is insistent, and as visionary as it is provocatively practical."" --Hanna Reichel, author of For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional ""If meals make neighbors, and neighbors make communities, then the table is far more than a place to eat. In Becoming Neighbors, Amar Peterman reminds us that the table is where we learn to linger, to see and be seen, and to be knit together--often against the grain of an age bent toward isolation, suspicion, and speed. Hospitality here is no small courtesy; it is a school of hope, where imagination is reawakened and the quiet miracle of God's presence can still break in."" --Anne Snyder, editor in chief, Comment ""Amar Peterman blends clarity, compassion, and depth in his call for Christians to take seriously the kind of generous hospitality that is possible at the intersection of faithful witness and love of neighbor. Reading this book is time well spent."" --John Inazu, author of Learning to Disagree: The Surprising Path to Navigating Differences with Empathy and Respect ""Amar Peterman brings to the American church the ancient, precolonial values of peaceful pluralism embodied by our Indian ancestors, values the West desperately needs for its healing today. This book is a hope-filled, prophetic reimagination of what the church was always meant to be--good news for the poor and oppressed, working alongside the Spirit of God who is already present in all of humanity and creation. If you're longing for a church that heals, hopes, and joins God's liberating work in the world, read this book."" --Joash P. Thomas, author of The Justice of Jesus: Reimagining Your Church's Life Together to Pursue Liberation and Wholeness ""Rooted in the conviction that God's purposes unfold in our neighborhoods, Amar Peterman calls readers to focus close to home, reminding us that faithful citizenship begins with knowing and serving our neighbors, especially across lines of difference, and that the common good is cultivated through incarnate engagement that reflects God's care for the world."" --Stephanie Summers, CEO of The Center for Public Justice

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Amar D. Peterman is a constructive theologian working at the intersection of faith and public life. He is the founder of Scholarship for Religion and Society LLC and the former assistant director of civic networks at Interfaith America. Peterman holds an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a PhD student at the University of Chicago's Divinity School. His writing and research have been featured in Sojourners, Christianity Today, The Christian Century, The Fetzer Institute, TheBerkley Forum, and The Anxious Bench. He also publishes regularly on his Substack, This Common Life.

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