Rachel Pieh Jones is the author of Pillars: How Muslim Friends Led Me Closer to Jesus and Stronger than Death: How Annalena Tonelli Defied Terror and Tuberculosis in the Horn of Africa. She has written for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, Runners World, and Christianity Today. In 2003 she moved to Somaliland, and from 2004 to 2023 she lived in neighboring Djibouti, where she and her husband ran a school. Subscribe to her Substack. Twitter: @RachelPiehJones

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