BookJemar Tisby.
Summary: Churches remain racially segregated and are largely ineffective in addressing complex racial challenges. In The Color of Compromise, Jemar Tisby takes us back to the root of this injustice in the American church, highlighting the cultural and institutional tables we have to flip in order to bring about progress between black and white people.
Contents:
Foreword / by Lecrae
The color of compromise
Making race in the colonial era
Understanding liberty in the age of revolution and revival
Institutionalizing race in the Antebellum era
Defending slavery at the onset of the Civil War
Reconstructing white supremacy in the Jim Crow era
Remembering the complicity in the North
Compromising with racism during the civil rights movement
Organizing the religious right at the end of the twentieth century
Reconsidering racial reconciliation in the age of Black Lives Matter
The fierce urgency of now
Conclusion : be strong and courageous.
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