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Calculating Grace: Learning Love Across the Social Divide
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ISBN13: 9798995162100
Publisher: Two Books Publishing
Published: Mar 12 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Two Books Publishing
Published: Mar 12 2026
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When biology professor Joel Duff drove two women to a Jason Aldean concert, he knew there would be no VIP tickets waiting at will call. For twelve years, Deb and her housemate had believed they were engaged to the country music superstar and his best friend-an elaborate romance scam that had consumed their hopes, their meager disability checks, and their dreams of rescue from poverty.
What Duff didn't expect was what that devastating evening would reveal about himself.
Calculating Grace chronicles twenty-three years of unlikely friendship across America's deepest divide-not political, but economic. When a struggling student appeared in his classroom, Duff began a journey that would dismantle his comfortable assumptions about Christian charity, expose the hidden pride beneath his good deeds, and force him to confront an unsettling question: Who was really helping whom?
With unflinching honesty and theological depth, Duff examines the messy intersection of faith, poverty, mental health, and human dignity. He challenges middle-class churches to move beyond safe charity toward the risky, uncomfortable work of genuine relationship-and discovers that grace often looks nothing like we expect.
Part memoir, part confession, part prophetic call, Calculating Grace asks what it truly costs to love someone whose story never makes complete sense, whose problems never get solved, and who insists on calling you Brother.
Calculating Grace chronicles twenty-three years of unlikely friendship across America's deepest divide-not political, but economic. When a struggling student appeared in his classroom, Duff began a journey that would dismantle his comfortable assumptions about Christian charity, expose the hidden pride beneath his good deeds, and force him to confront an unsettling question: Who was really helping whom?
With unflinching honesty and theological depth, Duff examines the messy intersection of faith, poverty, mental health, and human dignity. He challenges middle-class churches to move beyond safe charity toward the risky, uncomfortable work of genuine relationship-and discovers that grace often looks nothing like we expect.
Part memoir, part confession, part prophetic call, Calculating Grace asks what it truly costs to love someone whose story never makes complete sense, whose problems never get solved, and who insists on calling you Brother.
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