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The Same Kind of Human: Seeing the Marginalized and Exploited through Eyes of Grace Kindle Edition

by Christine McDonald (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
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"Perhaps the separation between someone like him and someone like me…was not so wide after all. Perhaps we were just two sides of the same coin, two facets of the same kind of human."

PROSTITUTE
ADDICT
HOMELESS
CRIMINAL

To the everyday person, these words conjure up a variety of thoughts. How does one arrive there? Is it by choice? Why don’t they just stop, or go get a job? Can a person like this really change?

Christine "Clarity" McDonald, survivor of human trafficking and author of the memoir Cry Purple, challenges the biases and assumptions we commonly hold about exploited and marginalized populations. Through stories of her own lived experiences, Scripture, thought-provoking commentary, and practical resources, she unveils the humanity of these individuals and helps us to see them through the eyes of Jesus—eyes of grace. In helping us see the humanity of those we often judge or shun, she empowers us to instead reach out with arms of love and a message of hope.

CHRISTINE "CLARITY" MCDONALD
is an internationally recognized author and speaker on the social injustices facing marginalized populations today. As a survivor of human trafficking, homelessness, and addiction, Christine is on a mission to bring justice and awareness to the forefront of social change through legislative work, speaking, and compassion. She is a believer in Jesus Christ, director of www.christinesvision.org, and the Program Director of the Restoration House of Greater Kansas City. She resides in the St. Louis area with her young son, Rickster.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N4D2T1O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ (December 11, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 11, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 574 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 221 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

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Wendy
5.0 out of 5 stars I could not put this book down and even when I did, what I read stayed on my heart and mind for days.
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2017
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I found Christine McDonald's book "The Same Kind of Human: Seeing the Marginalized and Exploited through Eyes of Grace" to be the best book that I have read when it comes to portraying the thoughts and feelings of an exploited or prostituted or homeless or drug addicted person. This book brought me to tears and it gave me hope. Hope that there are people out there who do care. Sometimes those people do not know how to help or how to approach a hurting people in need, I can assure you that once you have read this book - you will know how to approach a hurting person and how to help people in need.

I could not put this book down and even when I did, what I read stayed on my heart and mind for days.

I get concerned when I read books written by Christians. I am not a religious person and do not feel comfortable speaking with others about my relationship with God. The same goes for others that I do not feel comfortable listening to them go on and on about their religious practices or their 'God'. I am a spiritual person who loves God as I know him - and I found this book to be real and I did not feel uncomfortable with the amount of religion that she spoke of. She gives an entire truth - her truth - both the ugly and the beautiful.

Anyone and everybody who works with marginalized or exploited persons NEEDS to read this book before doing face to face contact with these people. I wish everyone would read this book.

I wish I could thank that one little church, the one that did not call the police on you, the one that accepted you and offered help. Christine, thank you for writing this book. It touched my heart in a very profound way. I can see your soul through the words in this book. I see God, the one whom I love, in you.
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TQ from Kansas City
5.0 out of 5 stars This book teaches you to see people through Jesus' eyes
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2018
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I loved this book because it was a raw vulnerable look at a homeless woman's journey to redemption and finding her voice through the help and support of people that could take a look at her as a person just as they are. A person with real feelings, emotions, dreams, a person, not a label. If you want to know how you can help a person whose had a rough life as Christine, words matter. Saying the wrong words cut deep, but saying the right words lift a person's spirits & this book teaches us how to begin to understand the things that can lead a person to become homeless. All of us are one step away from homelessness, which brings on many other difficulties and sometimes death itself. This book teaches us not to judge others if we have never walked in their shoes. It teaches us to have compassion as Jesus did for the hurt, the vulnerable, the poor & how we can lift them up. This book helped me to be able to go into a homeless shelter designed to get homeless women off the streets and into society again. I needed to know what to say and how to respond to them. When I have never known such heartache as they, how can I help them accept my words of encouragement when we seem to live such worlds apart? It helped me to know how to love homeless women as "Women" just as I. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works with Human Trafficked individuals or Homeless people because it will help you to understand many things such as why addiction is so prevalent. The prostitute is a person who has been prostituted. That's not who she is it is something that happened to her and it is a hard thing to come out of because of the spiral that brings a person down.
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Gary Craig
5.0 out of 5 stars Insight into helping others
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018
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After reading Cry Purple her first book, i knew i needed to read this one too. This book shares more of her story, but is designed to get you to look at your attitudes and perceptions. There are questions to get you to look inside yourself. And there are helps for you to see from the perspective of the one being helped versus the one trying to help and suggestions for being more fruitful in your ministering to people and also things to avoid that can hinder it. I highly recommend anyone involved in helping people read this book, it will be an eye opener to the plight of others and of things in yourself that need adressing.
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TrueOBSESSION
5.0 out of 5 stars Read "Cry Purple"!
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019
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I first read this author's other book, "Cry Purple" five years ago and re-read it yesterday. It's a fascinating and powerful story. I had to read this book because I wanted to know more. I'm so glad I did. I think it brought me closer to God and made me see some blessings in my life born of original pain. This author is a beautiful person with so much to share. Thank you, "Clarity"!!!
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D. West
5.0 out of 5 stars There but for the grace of God, go I...
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2016
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Reading "The Same Kind of Human" will change you. Christine McDonald provides a glimpse of what it's like to be without basic human needs (food, shelter and safety) and how that insecurity impacts one's ability to trust and to make confident decisions. Learning about her real-life circumstances causes the reader to examine his or her judgments about the homeless, prostituted persons, and addicts. Ms. McDonald challenges assumptions and highlights the need for compassion, grace and practical support. I recommend this book to the average person who never knows what to do when encountering a homeless person, and especially to all those who work with, counsel, and serve the disenfranchised.
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5.0 out of 5 stars For Everyone!
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016
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So very hard to read and yet could not put it down! Answers to all of the questions you want to ask but were afraid to. This book was most humbling and painfully honest of how society is. The best tool for anyone to have, to learn about how to help those around us who are hurting and most of all recognize those who have been hurt. The message is simple and repeated throughout the book. Seeing through the eyes of Grace, God's Grace.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020
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This book is eye opening and insightful into the world many people chose to ignore or shun. Seeing prostituted persons through a new lens and in a new light breaks your heart and pushes you to pay attention and make a change in your community.
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Julie R. Burr
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing grace
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017
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Haven't finished this, but Ms. McDonald is the real deal. She's passionate about sharing the lessons of her life with those of us who haven't walked in her shoes. She's the voice of many invisibles. Her misery has been turned into much ministry. God uses her pulse to serve many purposes, and her tests testify to the amazing way our Creator draws us back to Him in this fallen world.
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