From new school desks to freckles and moles, from fresh pastries to cedar canoes, brown is everywhere around us. God created and used brown to color the giant California redwoods, the Grand Canyon walls, busy beavers building dams, great horned owls hoo-hooing, and his image-bearers.
I’m searching to see
something wonderfully, marvelously
brown—just like you and like me!
Release date: October 1, 2024
Excerpt from Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown
When readers realize that God used the same color to create our skin tones, from the darkest to the lightest shades of brown, He can tear down the lies that divide us and help us celebrate every skin color as good, beautiful, and God-given. I pray this scientific and biblical truth will help eradicate the ignorance and insecurity that has caused the divisions, stereotypes, prejudice, colorism, and racism that have led to false senses of superiority and inferiority.
Xochitl (So-Cheel) Dixon, author of Waiting for God: Trusting Him for the Answers to Your Prayers, is a regular contributor for Our Daily Bread, the bestselling God Hears Her compilations and blog, and Tyndale’s NLT Go Bible for Kids (September 2024). Equipping readers to grow closer to God while nurturing an authentic loving community, she shares biblical encouragement, celebrates ethnic diversity, and advocates for disability awareness with her beautifully diverse family and her service dog, Callie, featured in the 2021 ECPA Christian Book Award Children’s Book Finalist Different Like Me, Diferente como yo, What Color is God’s Love? and Wonderfully, Marvelously Brown. She connects with readers on Instagram, Facebook, and at www.xedixon.com. |