Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
    Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
    Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace
    Audiobook9 hours

    Undivided: A Muslim Daughter, Her Christian Mother, Their Path to Peace

    Written by Patricia Raybon and Alana Raybon

    Narrated by Suzie Althens and Dr. Simona Chitescu-Weik

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    “Mom, I have something I need to tell you…” 

    They didn’t talk.  Not for ten years.  Not about faith anyway.  Instead, a mother and daughter tiptoed with pain around the deepest gulf in their lives – the daughter’s choice to leave the church, convert to Islam and become a practicing Muslim.  Undivided is a real-time story of healing and understanding with alternating narratives from each as they struggle to learn how to love each other in a whole new way.

    Although this is certainly a book for mothers and daughters struggling with interfaith tensions , it is equally meaningful for mothers and daughters who feel divided by tensions in general. An important work for parents whose adult children have left the family’s belief system, it will help those same children as they wrestle to better understand their parents.

    Undivided offers an up close and personal look at the life of an Islamic convert—a young American woman—at a time when attitudes are mixed about Muslims (and Muslim women in particular), but interest in such women is high. For anyone troubled by the broader tensions between Islam and the West, this personal story distills this friction into the context of a family relationship—a journey all the more fascinating.

    Undivided is a tremendously important book for our time.  Will Patricia be able to fully trust in the Christ who “holds all things together?”  Will Alana find new hope or new understanding as the conversation gets deeper between them?  And can they answer the question that both want desperately to experience, which is “Can we make our torn family whole again?”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateApr 28, 2015
    ISBN9780718034085
    Author

    Patricia Raybon

    Patricia Raybon is the award-winning author of I Told the Mountain to Move, a 2006 Book of the Year finalist in Christianity Today magazine’s annual book awards competition; and My First White Friend, her racial forgiveness memoir that won the Christopher Award. She is also author of the One Year® devotional, God’s Great Blessings. A journalist by training, Patricia has written essays on family and faith, which have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, USA Weekend, and In Touch of In Touch Ministries; and aired on National Public Radio. She is also a regular contributor to Today’s Christian Woman online magazine. With degrees in journalism from Ohio State University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patricia worked a dozen years as a newspaper journalist for the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. She later joined the journalism faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where for fifteen years she taught print journalism. Patricia now writes full-time on “mountain-moving faith.” Patricia and her husband, Dan, are longtime residents of Colorado and have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. Founder of the Writing Ministry at her Denver church, Patricia coaches and encourages aspiring authors around the country and is a member of the Colorado Authors League and the Authors Guild.

    More audiobooks from Patricia Raybon

    Related to Undivided

    Related audiobooks

    Relationships For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cool Dads: Tough Times Edition

      Jul 3, 2022

      Cool Dads: Tough Times Edition
      7 min read

    • Article

      Doreen Lawrence

      Nov 21, 2022

      Doreen Lawrence
      5 min read

    • Article

      After Prison, I Became a Better Dad

      Jun 14, 2019

      “Even when a parent has been part of a child’s pain, that parent’s love can still be the antidote.”

      6 min read

    • Article

      Lady Latonya

      Dec 4, 2019

      Lady Latonya
      6 min read

    • Article

      Finding God on the A Train

      Mar 26, 2019

      Finding God on the A Train
      5 min read

    • Article

      On The Horizon

      Apr 20, 2021

      On The Horizon
      8 min read

    • Article

      “I Escaped My Grandfather’s Sex Cult”

      Mar 16, 2022

      I was born into the Family, a religious movement founded in Huntington Beach, California, in 1968 by my grandfather David Brandt Berg, with help from his four children, including my father, Hosea. It was known as the Children of God in its early days

      8 min read

    • Article

      Family Ties

      May 2, 2021

      Family Ties
      4 min read

    • Article

      Prometheus Bound In ISS

      Dec 10, 2021

      The room I’m in lacks character. Oh, it’s full of characters, all right, but none of them are the prizes of this fine institution. But as a room, it fits the basic definition. There are four walls, a door, the standard issued government purchased des

      16 min read

    • Article

      A Chat With Ashley Simpo

      Mar 3, 2022

      A Chat With Ashley Simpo
      8 min read

    • Article

      Face Tough Questions Head-on

      May 19, 2022

      Face Tough Questions Head-on
      2 min read

    • Article

      The MOTHER ODE

      Apr 18, 2022

      The MOTHER ODE
      5 min read

    • Article

      What Grandpa Taught Me

      May 27, 2022

      What Grandpa Taught Me
      4 min read

    • Article

      Here’s What I Don’t Say

      Jun 1, 2019

      Here’s What I Don’t Say
      13 min read

    • Article

      Heart To Heart

      Aug 11, 2020

      Heart To Heart
      4 min read

    • Article

      When Your Dad Gets Locked Up—And Then Deported

      May 11, 2018

      I crossed the border from Mexico with my parents when I was 6 years old. I remember walking for a day and a half and wading through a river. I remember sitting on my dad’s shoulders, feeling his skin peeling and blistering. In Mexico, we had worked

      5 min read

    • Article

      ‘I Hate my Reality’

      Jul 22, 2022

      ‘I Hate my Reality’
      11 min read

    • Article

      An Epilogue to Homeschooling: A Mother Hangs Up Her Homeschooling Hat…Now What?

      Oct 3, 2022

      Estimated reading time: 11 minutes — My chest feels achy. It’s felt like this for weeks now. I keep catching myself holding my breath, losing focus, reaching for something to soothe me, staring into space. This isn’t me — who is this person, I wonde

      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Undivided

    4/5

    2 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      The narrators were fantastic. The book title Undivided ... Their Path to Peace led me to believe the book would have a different tone. The mother is overbearing, and I thought petty and childish. The daughter chose a path that worked for her. She has an attentive encouraging husband. They both work, are active in their faith activities, and have children who are their priority. Ten years is a long time for a Christian mother not to speak to her daughter. I can understand why the daughter stayed away. The path to peace I believe the daughter knew would be a lifelong conscious decision to get along. The ball is and has always been in the mother's court.

      The book really is more about the mother wanting her way, without trying to understand the path her daughter chose. It's not a great book. It's not bad. It's meh. I learned and appreciated when the daughter spoke.

      I picked up the book at Book Outlet on clearance (only books I buy) and read along with the audio from Scribd. And, I'm glad I did. There are lessons to learn.