“You will find out that the margins are God’s favorite place to hang out.”
Rev. Dr. Cari Willis, Chaplain to those on death row
Through lived stories, Bishop Kenneth Carder candidly shares lessons learned
from his experiences with people on the margins of society, including his own
formation as the son of Appalachian tenant farmers and textile workers. By entering his life and ministry from poverty to privilege, from provincialism and segregation to beloved community, and from a religion of fear to a theology of liberating love, the reader is invited to widen the margins of their own relationships and perspectives.
The reader accompanies the author as he struggles with economic exploitation and
disparity, racial segregation and white privilege, ministry with those in prisons,
and the heart-wrenching loss of his wife and his own aging.
The road map of Carder’s journey includes:
• Birthed and Nurtured on the Margins
• Early Movement from Poverty to Privilege
• A Whole New World and a Radical Shift
• Transition Back Home and a Changed World
• Poverty, Privilege, and Ministry
• Confrontation with Personal and Institutional Racism
• “I Was in Prison. . .”
• Dementia and Diminishment: Gifts from the Forgetting and the Forgotten
• Margins Keep Shifting
