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Amy Peterson grew up in church, where she loved the adventurous stories of missionaries in foreign countries who won people to the Lord. After college, she was ready to do big things for God on the mission field herself. Dangerous Territory is a captivating memoir that tells Amy's personal journey from wide-eyed adventurer to questioning believer to simply a beloved child of God. Her story will challenge your notion of mission work, showing how you can have a vital relationship with God that naturally spills over to affect others.

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Do not read this book if you are content with safe categories, messiah complexes, or serving God as a way to serve yourself.Do read this book if you want to wrestle with a God who works outside our boxesand humbles us in the process. Bysharing so freely from her own life, Peterson givesus the opportunity toinviteHiswork into ours. Simultaneouslydevastating and comforting, <i>Dangerous Territory </i>callsus beyondour simplistic notions of commitment to God to a place of fullsurrender. --Hannah Anderson, author of Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul

Peterson's thoughtful and vulnerable exploration of her missionary experiences urges us to peel away the layers. To learn, finally, what it is to rest in our own Belovedness. --Addie Zierman, author of Night Driving and When We Were on Fire In this book Amy Peterson opens up her messy, ordinary, and beautiful life to let us see what it meant for her to go from a young woman wrapped in the mythology of missionary heroes, through dark days of disillusionment, into a deeper, more grounded understanding of faith and calling. --Brian M. Howell, Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton College Peterson is a thoughtful writer whose honest prose will appeal to any readers wanting to align themselves with God's will, whether in a foreign land or at home. --Publishers Weekly starred review Amy's is a story of a life broken open and remade: imperfectly, beautifully. We need more brave stories like hers. --Micha Boyett, author of Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, & Everyday Prayer There is a disarming determination in these pages not to let Christian faith go until its blessings are known and felt. --Wesley Hill, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry and author of Spiritual Friendship Amy Peterson's wise and provocative words should be required reading for any Christian about to immerse herself in another culture or community. --Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Wearing God Amy Peterson's writing is vulnerable and beautiful, and she is a good companion for Christians in search of an earthy, ordinary faith. --Michael Cosper, founder and director of Harbor Media and author of Recapturing the Wonder Amy Peterson is one of my favorite writers. --Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for Sunday Amy Peterson's Dangerous Territory is too honest to indulge the hero fa�ade and too authentic to avoid the unresolved questions. But real stories are like that. If you want to read a real story, a well-told story, a story where shallow Christian missionary triumphalism is replaced by the messy, unresolved, and sometimes tragic life of faith, then read this story. In Dangerous Territory we set aside our adolescent faith with its tidy answers and clean endings, and we take up an adult faith; a faith with real risk, real loss, real questions, and God's presence on the other side of pain. --Scott Bessenecker, author and Interim Director of Missions, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Do not read this book if you are content with safe categories, messiah complexes, or serving God as a way to serve yourself. Do read this book if you want to wrestle with a God who works outside our boxes and humbles us in the process. By sharing so freely from her own life, Peterson gives us the opportunity to invite His work into ours. Simultaneously devastating and comforting, Dangerous Territory calls us beyond our simplistic notions of commitment to God to a place of full surrender. --Hannah Anderson, author of Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul Dangerous Territory is a must-read for anyone, like myself, who longs to be a part of the global story of God's coming kingdom. Here, Peterson unpacks the layers of the traditional missionary narrative in ways that are subversive, profound, and ultimately hopeful. --D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

People are both hungry to hear stories of what God is up to all over the world and uneasy at how these stories have traditionally been told. This is why <i>Dangerous Territory</i> is a must-read for anyone, like myself, who longs to be a part of the global story of God s coming kingdom. Here, Peterson unpacks the layers of the traditional missionary narrative in ways that are subversive, profound, and ultimately hopeful. --D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

Peterson's thoughtful and vulnerable exploration of her missionary experiences urges us to peel away the layers. To learn, finally, what it is to rest in our own Belovedness. --Addie Zierman, author of Night Driving and When We Were on Fire In this book Amy Peterson opens up her messy, ordinary, and beautiful life to let us see what it meant for her to go from a young woman wrapped in the mythology of missionary heroes, through dark days of disillusionment, into a deeper, more grounded understanding of faith and calling. --Brian M. Howell, Professor of Anthropology, Wheaton College Peterson is a thoughtful writer whose honest prose will appeal to any readers wanting to align themselves with God's will, whether in a foreign land or at home. --Publishers Weekly starred review Amy's is a story of a life broken open and remade: imperfectly, beautifully. We need more brave stories like hers. --Micha Boyett, author of Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, & Everyday Prayer There is a disarming determination in these pages not to let Christian faith go until its blessings are known and felt. --Wesley Hill, Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at Trinity School for Ministry and author of Spiritual Friendship Amy Peterson's wise and provocative words should be required reading for any Christian about to immerse herself in another culture or community. --Lauren F. Winner, author of Girl Meets God and Wearing God Amy Peterson's writing is vulnerable and beautiful, and she is a good companion for Christians in search of an earthy, ordinary faith. --Michael Cosper, founder and director of Harbor Media and author of Recapturing the Wonder Amy Peterson is one of my favorite writers. --Rachel Held Evans, author of Searching for Sunday Amy Peterson's Dangerous Territory is too honest to indulge the hero facade and too authentic to avoid the unresolved questions. But real stories are like that. If you want to read a real story, a well-told story, a story where shallow Christian missionary triumphalism is replaced by the messy, unresolved, and sometimes tragic life of faith, then read this story. In Dangerous Territory we set aside our adolescent faith with its tidy answers and clean endings, and we take up an adult faith; a faith with real risk, real loss, real questions, and God's presence on the other side of pain. --Scott Bessenecker, author and Interim Director of Missions, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Do not read this book if you are content with safe categories, messiah complexes, or serving God as a way to serve yourself. Do read this book if you want to wrestle with a God who works outside our boxes and humbles us in the process. By sharing so freely from her own life, Peterson gives us the opportunity to invite His work into ours. Simultaneously devastating and comforting, Dangerous Territory calls us beyond our simplistic notions of commitment to God to a place of full surrender. --Hannah Anderson, author of Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul Dangerous Territory is a must-read for anyone, like myself, who longs to be a part of the global story of God's coming kingdom. Here, Peterson unpacks the layers of the traditional missionary narrative in ways that are subversive, profound, and ultimately hopeful. --D. L. Mayfield, author of Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith

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Amy Peterson is a writer, English as a second language instructor, and assistant director of honors programming at Taylor University. She has a master's degree in missions and intercultural studies from Wheaton College, and has used it to work with people from more than a dozen countries. Amy lives with her fellow adventurer husband and their two children on two acres of Indiana farmland. Read more of Amy's writing on her blog, amypeterson.net.

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