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Ray and Elsie Dewey raised their son to see differences as intriguing. Differences of ethnicity, religion, culture and nationality were fascinating and to be explored, never feared. So every prejudice he discovered within himself became a request for God to heal him. This open exploration challenged Roger's view of the Bible. Brought up to trust it as God's Word, he went to it for clarification when preachers claimed it promoted something he questioned from personal experience, especially about poor people and justice. He discovered that many who quote the Bible use invisible scissors to cut...

In his twenties Roger hitchhiked throughout Latin America to learn if indigenous people already knew-before the missionaries-that God knew them and accepted them personally. He heard their stories in country after country. The entire time was a life-changing, extended adventure of walking with Jesus into the complete unknown. It set the course for Roger's life of trusting Jesus and his certainty of God's unconditional acceptance of us all. Each evening Roger wrote that day's experiences, including verbatim conversations. These now have been edited only for clarity, so this is an honest record...

As a teenager Roger Dewey began to explore the differences between Christianity and Jesus. He put himself outside his comfort zone, where he "didn't even know the rules," to see if God would show up, to see if he could hear the still, small voice of Jesus. On the day of the funeral of Martin Luther King, Roger felt impelled to leave grad school and commit his life to justice for the excluded and combating racism in the church. He "shut up and listened" for the counsel of God. Never really liking prayer, he learned simply to talk with Jesus about everything and to be silent and listen for a...