{"id":22694,"date":"2025-12-02T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/?p=22694"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:32:32","slug":"new-book-by-nc-conference-pastor-jabe-largen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/2025\/12\/new-book-by-nc-conference-pastor-jabe-largen\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book by NC Conference Pastor Jabe Largen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rev. Dr. Jabe Largen, senior pastor of Pinehurst UMC, has published a new book, <strong><em>They Call Me Jabe: A Hillbilly Tale of Life, Death, and Grace<\/em><\/strong>. The book is Jabe&#8217;s memoir of growing up in Appalachia and his &#8220;many strange and unexpected encounters with grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"934\" data-id=\"22696\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Jabe-Largen-1440x934.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Jabe-Largen-1440x934.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Jabe-Largen-720x467.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Jabe-Largen-768x498.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Jabe-Largen-1536x997.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/Jabe-Largen-2048x1329.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" data-id=\"22697\" src=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/they-call-me-jabe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/they-call-me-jabe.jpg 667w, https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/12\/they-call-me-jabe-480x720.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Description<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Read a description of the book from the publisher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From drug addiction at a young age, to becoming an ordained United Methodist pastor, to battling with depression, the author provides an authentic, candid, and sometimes comical look at his life as he chronicles his journey from his native land to other communities and environments outside of Appalachia. A string that runs throughout Jabe&#8217;s story is that of untimely death. He introduces to us many of the people he has called family and friend, who meet an early demise because of substance abuse or other forms of tragedy. With a lack of sentimentality and a brutal honesty, Jabe&#8217;s story is one that is deeply moving, while also proving to be uncomfortably challenging at times. Topics such as mass incarceration, corporate greed, mental health, and addiction are taken head on in a theological and cultural commentative way, in the context of one life, lived, full of grace, pain, hope, and heartache.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Response<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is the #1 New Release in the Sociology of Religion category on Amazon. It also received positive reviews from folks well-known to our conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>They Call Me Jabe<\/em>\u00a0felt like stumbling upon someone&#8217;s private diary. Raw. Honest. Tender. The palpable reality of addiction, disappointment, opioids, and loss was excruciating . . . yet not the last word. Grace gets the last word.&#8221;<br>&#8211;Connie Mitchell Shelton, Bishop, Raleigh Episcopal Area<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Backstories&#8211;we all have them. Jabe&#8217;s is unsparingly hard. Yet God flips the script to Jabe&#8217;s recurring thought, &#8216;This should be me,&#8217; demonstrating again the power of the scriptural question, &#8216;Is anything too hard for the Lord?'&#8221;<br>&#8211;Hope Morgan Ward, Bishop in Residence, Candler School of Theology, Emory University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>They Call Me Jabe<\/em>\u00a0is a genuine page-turner. If the reader is not familiar with what drugs, especially, the opioids, have wrought in places like Pulaski County, Virginia, Jabe Largen&#8217;s memoir will be a revelation. He has given an unsparing account of the many devastations visited on him, his family, and friends due to drug addiction. Largen, who now pastors a Methodist church in North Carolina, also offers an unsentimental account of his redemption. This book is a none-too-gentle reminder that with the Lord and a few of his helpers, the Light really can overcome the darkness. This is a conversion story&#8211;and much, much more.&#8221;<br>&#8211;Richard Lischer, author of\u00a0<em>Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They Call Me Jabe<\/em> can be purchased online at <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/they-call-me-jabe-jabe-largen\/74766764fabcfc17?ean=9798385252800&amp;next=t&amp;next=t&amp;affiliate=21568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bookshop.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/They-Call-Me-Jabe-Hillbilly\/dp\/B0G1MW6K41\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>, and directly from the <a href=\"https:\/\/wipfandstock.com\/9798385252800\/they-call-me-jabe\/\">publisher<\/a>. It can also be borrowed from the <a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc-hl.mimas.opalsinfo.net\/bin\/index#\/recDetail?rid=7224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NC Conference Media Center<\/a> by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/media-center\/resource-request-form\/\">Resource Request Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dr. Jabe Largen, senior pastor of Pinehurst UMC, has published a new book, They Call Me Jabe: A Hillbilly Tale of Life, Death, and Grace. 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