White Picket Fences, Amy Julia Becker
White Picket Fences, Amy Julia Becker
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White Picket Fences
Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege

Author: Amy Julia Becker

Narrator: Amy Julia Becker

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/02/2018

Synopsis

A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of Privilege The notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we’ll never fully understand it or find our way forward. Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She shows how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects, and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well.White Picket Fences invites us to respond to privilege with generosity, humility, and hope. It opens us to questions we are afraid to ask, so that we can walk further from fear and closer to love, in all its fragile and mysterious possibilities.

About Amy Julia Becker

Amy Julia Becker is an award-winning writer and speaker on faith, family, disability, and culture. She is the author of several books, including White Picket Fences: Turning Towards Love in a World Divided by Privilege. She hosts the Love Is Stronger than Fear podcast.

Becker was born in Edenton, North Carolina, but has spent her adult life in the northeastern United States. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Becker now lives with her husband Peter and three children, Penny, William, and Marilee, in western Connecticut. Becker has a bi-vocational license with the Evangelical Covenant Church. She and her family are members of Salem Covenant Church.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on October 18, 2018

(Review originally appeared at Servants of Grace.) In White Picket Fences, Amy Julia Becker comes to terms with a lifetime’s worth of privilege. She looks back on her life with newfound ambivalence about the subtle advantages of her childhood. For example, her family employed a nanny, a gardener, and......more

Goodreads review by Kara on September 17, 2018

I enjoyed hearing Amy’s humble and convicting experience with white privilege. I like that this book offers a white woman’s take of privilege and how her life mirrors mine and many other people that i know. I kept waiting for her to list steps to fight against privilege but I realized towards the en......more

Goodreads review by Anita on November 23, 2018

If I had not heard Amy Julia Becker speak at her book launch, I would have stereotyped her based on her master of divinity degree. I would have thought that her devout faith, combined with being white and female, would have deterred her from having a real understanding of white privilege. She would......more

Goodreads review by Nadine on October 22, 2018

And now, as I confront the harm to me, to my friends and family, and to countless others by a social structure that has been built on exclusion, do I want to get well? It's a loaded question author Amy Julia Becker asks in White Picket Fences: Turning toward Love in a World Divided by Privilege. I di......more

Goodreads review by Joan on October 11, 2018

This book was enlightening and challenging. Having grown up in a lower middle class farming family, I would not have considered myself privileged. I had no idea. Reading Becker's memoir and thoughts on privilege made me realize I grew up privileged and still am. Like Becker, I cannot change my ethnic......more

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