“Jaques Ellul said, ‘When we see someone as our neighbor, we see a person to whom we are responsible.’ We feed the hungry, we speak for the voiceless, we care for the sick, because when we do so, we care for our brothers and sisters and we represent the love of Jesus. We belong to one another.”

Neighborliness is the empowering anthem to loving and serving others that we need in 2022. David Docusen walks us through finding commonality with those we don’t think we can connect with, doing internal work to learn about our inattentional blindness, implicit bias, and aversion to discomfort, and learning to humble ourselves and listen to those in communities around us. This book is incredible because it’s so practical, sharing how we not only have to figure out what’s going on within ourselves, but we need to educate ourselves, lament with other communities, see how changing people can change systems, and learn to build relationships. Done are the days of toxic charity - Neighborliness is the guide we need to reframe what it looks like to be someone’s neighbor and rebuild and restore communities.

Thank you so much to Frontgate Media for the copy of this book.