The twenty-first century has opened with a rapidly changing map of Christianity. While its influence is waning in some of its traditional Western strongholds, it is growing at a phenomenal pace in the global South. And yet this story has largely eluded the corporate news brokers of the West. Layered as it is with countless personal and corporate stories of remarkable faith and witness, it nevertheless lies ghostlike behind the newsprint and webpages of our print media, outside the camera's vision on the network evening news. Miriam Adeney has lived, traveled and ministered widely. She has walked with Christians in and from the far reaches of the globe. As she pulls back the veil on real Christians--their faith, their hardships, their triumphs and, yes, their failures--an inspiring and challenging story of a kingdom that knows no borders takes shape. This is a book that coaxes us out of our comfortable lives. It beckons us to expand our vision and experience of the possibilities and promise of a faith that continues to shape lives, communities and nations.

Why should you get involved in Christian writing? "I'd love to, but I have no time," you may say. But wouldn't it be rewarding to occasionally sit down and scribble out an unplanned response to God when he has interacted with you in a crisis? Miriam Adeney has written this small book to re-ignite the passion within us to write. This books provides many detail suggestions on the why, what and how to write. ?Miriam Adeney, whose Ph.D. is in anthropology, is associate professor of global and urban ministries at Seattle Pacific University. She has also been a research professor at Regent College and has coordinated a bookwriting program for Asia, Africa and Latin America. Her own publications include A Time for Risking: Priorities for Women and Hagar's Daughters: Ministries with Muslim Women.

Their clothing is often distinctive. Their values are strongly held. They love their families. They comprise nearly one-tenth of the world's population, and they live everywhere around the globe. These are women of Muslim background. Many still belong to Islam, but some now belong to Christ. In Daughters of Islam Miriam Adeney introduces you to women like Ladan, Khadija and Fatma. You'll learn about their lives, questions and hopes. You'll learn how they are both representative of and unique among their Arab, Iranian, Southeast Asian and African sisters. And you'll discover what has drawn them to Christ. Adeney explores the many interwoven threads that make up daily experience for Ladan, Khadija, Fatma and their sisters, including sexuality, singleness and marriage children and extended family finances religious tradition and practice teaching and learning styles As you enter into the lives of Ladan, Khadija and Fatma, you'll gain insight into how to relate to other women of Muslim background--and how to introduce them to Christ.