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	A Love Affair with India (Paperback, 2009) By United Methodist Church	Adult	8/2/2009 Add
	WordGuru said: A Love Affair with India: The Story of the Wife and Daughter of E. Stanley Jones was written over a four-year incubation while in close touch with the daughter, Eunice Jones Mathews. Urged by many to write her story and that of her mother who spent forty-two years in India, she waited until Providence brought us together. These are no ordinary women. Through wars, pandemics, politics and natural disasters, they became change agents that far exeed the cultural limits imposed on women in the 19th and 20th centuries, both in the U.S. and India. While volumes have been written about the life and mission of E. Stanley Jones, it is time to tell the story of his wife and daughter. READ ON . . . tags: I recommend this book to Christians everywhere who are interested in mission, in history and the Indian land and its people. Especially for United Methodists, the book cuts a swath through the cultural notion of "women's work for women." It reveals an insatia