Ursula Riedel-Pfaefflin is professor of practical theology in Dresden, Germany, and is vice-president of the International Council of Pastoral Counselors. Archie Smith Jr. is the James and Clarice Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling at the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He is an ordained American Baptist minister and a Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
"Rarely does a volume embody so clearly the invitation it sets forth to the world. Siblings by Choice: Race, Gender, and Violence is the exception. In its pages the authors ask us to consider a life where we who have been enemies work together as brothers and sisters intent on mending the world. As the authors paint for us the portraits of their own social locations we realize that they themselves represent the differences about which they speak: one an African American male who has known the systemic oppression of life in a white privileged society; the other, a German female who has known privilege because of race, but oppression because she is woman. Being of different genders, races, and nationalities, they write together in the midst of a world broken and scarred by fear and violence."
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