Rode Molla constructs macro and micro frames for understanding the challenges of living on the margins and proposes ways to co-construct spiritual and theological strategies for socially just care. Her book is a compelling pastoral theology for all those whose social identities put them on the margins or borderlands.

Carrie Doehring, Iliff School of Theology

In a genuine tour de force of theory as well as a moving biopic of the travails of present day Ethiopia, Molla masterfully demonstrates how identity politics functions as the latest neoliberal and neocolonial subterfuge to exploit developing countries. At the same time, her analysis contextualizes even more brilliantly how what she terms a new 'political theology of care and praxis' can become an effective decolonial counterforce.

Carl Raschke, University of Denver

In her exploration of in-between spaces, Dr. Rode Molla crafts a passionate, personal, and erudite plea for the shared work needed to disrupt hegemonic and fragmented identities causing violence and suffering in her homeland. Through her creative and faithful work, she invites us all to imagine a way through polarization and dehumanization in our own contexts by designing embodied practices of care that bring healing through holding in-between spaces of connection and belonging. Dr. Molla offers a timely and courageous voice to a hurting world in dire need of political pastoral caregivers.

Katherine Turpin, Illiff School of Theology