Amir Ashour

Love Anyway

Christian Living

“Love Anyway is raw, honest, wrenching, and beautiful. Jeremy lays it all out there with a story that will rip your heart out, inspire you, and trouble you. He reminds us that love heals the world, but despite our most sincere efforts, it’s not always easy to know what love requires. Dostoevsky said, “Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.” This book is a call and an invitation to put everything on the line for that harsh and dreadful love, even our very lives. Jeremy Courtney understands the moving truth that hate breeds violence, and he acts on that truth in ceaselessly bold preemptive love for the enemy. I strongly endorse his actual life of peacemaking. We Koreans urgently need a peacemaker like Mr. Courtney—truly shalom incarnate—today. What an extraordinary book, written by an extraordinary person. I’ve long admired Jeremy and Jessica and their incredible team, and this beautifully written book inspired and challenged me. It reignited my heart and my spiritual imagination in so many ways. This is a must-read. Jeremy describes a world where all people can exist, be recognized, and be protected. All are equal, worthy, and important. Through his life in Iraq, he sees the Iraq I come from and believe in. A place that has been through dictatorships and invasions but still exists and is full of people who create. I hope Iraqis read this book to believe in Iraq the way Jeremy and others in the book believe in it, and internationals should read the book to see that Iraq is so much more than the troubling news media outlets portray.”