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“I have needed this book for a long time. That is, I have long needed the clarification it has brought to my own thinking about ‘the destitute and impoverished other’ and about how, in company with Christ, we all can both engage and bridge the us-them gulf that separates us one from another. So list me first as a grateful recipient of its instruction, and only after that, quote me as having said that Friendship at the Margins is about as readable, instructive and credible a book on missiology and faithful service as I have ever seen or ever even hope to see.” —Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence