Love Is the Resistance: Learn to Disagree, Resolve the Conflicts You've Been Avoiding, and Create Real Change

From the Back CoverPolarizing narratives. Echo chambers. Calls to resist.What if there's a better way?Are you tired of engaging in fruitless arguments or biting your tongue? Do you long for greater compassion and understanding with your friends, family members, coworkers, and neighbors? When love becomes our habitual reaction to the conflicts and divisions in our lives, we discover the resistance we need to stay true to our convictions without sacrificing our relationships.Love Is the Resistance will help you gain the confidence to communicate and connect with others, stop avoiding necessary tension, and resolve your internal and external conflicts."Love Is the Resistance brings a healing word to a world writhing in the throes of transition. With the wit of a master storyteller and the care of a pastor, Abercrombie guides readers through a transformational journey they will never forget."--Lisa Sharon Harper, author of The Very Good Gospel"In an age of extremism, division, and echo chambers, this book cuts through the noise, confronts the fear, and takes on the central issues of our time, showing us how to be better humans together. Thank you, Ashley, for being so honest, courageous, and helpful!"--Danielle Strickland, author of Better Together and founder of Women Speakers Collective"If your soul is jarred by the not-rightness of this world, and you are searching for the courage to respond without compromising, you will not find a louder cheerleader than Ashley!"--Sharon Hodde Miller, author of Nice: Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More"We find every reason to separate ourselves from others. In Love is the Resistance, Ashley identifies the reasons we fight and offers practical help to resolve our disagreements while celebrating our differences. You will be blessed by this book!"--Daniel Hill, author White Awake, White LiesWhen it comes to disagreement, we are in perpetual fight-or-flight mode. Rather than respond with a posture of compassion and connection, we are encouraged to "resist" others personally and politically. Either we engage in fruitless arguments with people who refuse to see things our way or we retreat to our echo chambers where everyone agrees with us. But the real resistance, the kind that helps us grow, is learning to love others--especially those who disagree with us.If you're tired of seeing your real-life and online communities in turmoil and you long to be an agent of peace, understanding, and reconciliation, it's time to join a new kind of resistance movement--one that pushes us toward personal transformation. Grounded in Scripture and illustrated with compelling true stories, this new book from Ashley Abercrombie will help you gain the confidence to communicate and connect with others, stop avoiding necessary tension, and resolve your internal and external conflicts.When we make love our habitual reaction to the conflicts and divisions in our lives, we'll find that we can stay true to our convictions without sacrificing our relationships.About the AuthorAshley Abercrombie fought to overcome addiction, rape, abortion, perfectionism, and dysfunctional relationships to become an honest, whole, and free woman (most days) and has been in multicultural urban ministry and justice work for more than 15 years. A writer, speaker, and cohost of the Why Tho podcast, Ashley is the author of Rise of the Truth Teller and lives with her husband and their children in Los Angeles, California.