Called to Be Friends, Called to Serve
- ahirou
- Mar 14
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 24
Called to Be Friends, Called to Serve is the story of a friendship that’s endured for more three decades, between the son of a Mississippi sharecropper and the son of a banker once called the richest man in California.
Written by Paul Marshall, this is a story that crosses lines of race and class while challenging the notion that we live in a divisive culture where such friendships aren’t possible.
Jacqueline C. Rivers writes that this unlikely alliance between John M. Perkins and Howard Ahmanson, Jr. "stimulate(s) hope in the power of faith to promote friendship and reconciliation.”
Readers will discover a tale filled with surprises, blessings, joys, struggles, pain, and sorrow, as these improbable friends, united in their faith, join hands in working for justice.
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For book purchasers, enjoy exclusive and free access to a short documentary about John and Howard’s friendship, produced and directed by Jody Hassett Sanchez.
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Thank you for supporting a story that inspires, challenges, and shows how faith-shaped friendships continue to make a difference in our world.
Author Paul Marshall is Wilson Professor of Religious Freedom at Baylor University, and senior fellow at the Religious Freedom Institute and Hudson Institute. He has authored over twenty books, including Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Choke Freedom Worldwide (Oxford University Press, 2011), Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion (Oxford University Press, 2009), Religious Freedom in the World (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008). His work has been translated into twenty languages.
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