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When the Good News Isn’t So Good
We have to face the fact that Christians often pick up odious behavior traits and exhibit them while singing songs of love and praise to Jesus of Nazareth.
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The Cross and the Gun
A lot of what passes for discipleship and church membership in America is lacking in this demand to lay down our lives before Jesus and to cast aside the devil and all his works.
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REVIEW: Shoutin’ in the Fire
I had to read this slowly, thoughtfully, with many pauses and breaks. There have been books I’ve read through in one sitting, sometimes because they are so fast paced that they demand my continued attention until I am done. Sometimes it’s over a few days. But this book . . . this book was something I’d pick up, read some pages, and then become so full of feelings that I had to put it down. To think a little. Process what was going on. Try to understand what was happening as the part of me I recognize as “me” was encountering this most remarkable book. Danté has written a book…
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When You See Their Truth
Whatever your beliefs are about redemption and salvation and even universalism—Jesus was always with those who are most despised and feared by Evangelicals. They’re the people he had meals with. Their homes were his resting place. They were whom he wept for.
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REVIEW: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
These are the stories of Black women living lives as Black women with no one else as their betters, let alone their equals.
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Which Way?
Your faith is about your personal relationship with your values, and it should not matter in the slightest whether anyone knows why you behave as you do when you behave better because of your faith.
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The White Voice in Black Conversations
There seems always to be that moment when the white participant says something that is simply too much to handle.
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REVIEW: Punch Me Up to the Gods
We learn, slowly, how to gather the people around us who will care for us and who will give us some space in their own lives.
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Beliefs and Behaviors
The Jesus of the texts doesn't encourage harm for others—and the opponents of health protocols aren't demonstrating the person of the texts.
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Shadows on the Wall
CRT is about systems, not individuals. Systems are developed as shortcuts for lengthy processes so that we don’t spend all our time trying to figure out how to hand multiple situations and not have disparate outcomes.
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REVIEW: Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend
I’ve read many books this year, some of them similar to his in that they are life stories. This is the first one that I finished where I wanted to have more.
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Hard Questions, Hard Answers
Jesus gets to the heart of the matter, which is simply you can’t follow Jesus if you have more important things than Jesus.
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Real but Imaginary Threats
Much ink will be spilled in the next few months or even years about the topic of Critical Race Theory (CRT), both by those who think they support it and those who think they oppose it
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The Fear of Transparency
The myth of white success also develops the myth of white innocence. All the successes were due to white efforts that others seemed unable to copy; all the events of terror and destruction were minimalized and forgotten. And white innocence was preserved & confirmed for a people who could gladly declare their devotion to America as the land of “liberty and justice for all.”
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REVIEW: Good White Racist?
As your friend, I need to tell you something about myself that I also see in you, and it’s something that’s bringing harm to people.
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REVIEW: Good White Racist?2
It’s not necessarily an easy book to read, although it is written with a clear, bracing, compassionate style. It will be hard to read because it is like having someone sit you down and say, “As your friend, I need to tell you something about myself that I also see in you, and it’s something that’s bringing harm to people.”
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The Devil Is a Christian Nationalist
There is no divine right for Christians to control the government. There is no place in the Constitution for Christians to be given charge of the government to rule as “Christians.”
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REVIEW: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
Absolutely great. Frank, honest, funny, touching, real. Frederick Joseph here is at once wonderfully endearing and approachable and also blunt and direct, someone who is self-possessed and self-aware, and someone who is going to be a great friend for whomever will let him be exactly that. I found myself laughing on quite a few pages, but almost in the next line wincing or even blurting out “oh my god.” There is so much truth here, and great observations, and the definite proclamation of “I am a man,” much in the spirit of the resisters of the 1960s. I appreciated so much the willingness to go into the paint, as it…
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REVIEW: Jesus and John Wayne
Du Mez answers the question “What happened to white Evangelicals between Clinton and Trump?” with provocative, well-researched data to show the inevitability of the election results in 2016—and 2020.
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Maybe the Tree Is Bad
If policing is such a difficult skill that it results in the killing of Black civilians again and again then perhaps the problem is not the civilians.
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REVIEW: Urban Apologetics
This is a solid book and a solid resource for any Christian, but it is focused on the needs of the Black Christian in today’s America.
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This Do
There is nothing that white American Christians have or want as human beings that our Black brothers and sisters do not want.
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On the Public Death of a Suspect
I am watching the trial of Derek Chauvin, taking place right now, to determine his culpability and guilt in the public death of George Floyd some ten months ago.
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Can This Racial Division Be Healed?
It’s fascinating and saddening to realize that the people who are outside the faith have a better understanding of Jesus and Christianity and the Gospel than many Evangelicals have.
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We Must See People in Color
It is the reality of America that white people do recognize color, and use it for judgment about a person’s character.
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Beyond the Sight Lines of Racism
Small acts lead to great effects, and nothing that we do is wasted when we are committed to doing well.
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REVIEW: How to Fight Racism
Working to bring our fellow human beings up to their full dignity as people who are endowed with full human, civil rights is a good thing for all of us,
