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Living into God's Dream: Dismantling Racism in America

by Catherine Meeks

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Christian Nonfiction. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:
  • Range of voices: Meeks, Rob Wright, Luther Smith, Diane D'Souza
  • A serious invitation to the serious work of developing a new conversation on race
  • Foreword by Sojourners' Jim Wallis
  • Study guide included While the dream of a "Post-Racial" America remains unfulfilled, the struggle against racism continues, with tools both new and old. This book is a report from the front, combining personal stories and theoretical and theological reflection with examples of the work of dismantling racism and methods for creating the much-needed "safe space" for dialogue on race to occur. Its aim is to demonstrate the ways in which a new conversation on race can be forged. The book addresses issues such as reasons for the failure of past efforts to achieve genuine racial reconciliation, the necessity to honor rage and grief in the process of moving to forgiveness and racial healing, and what whites with privilege and blacks without similar privilege must do to move the work of dismantling racism forward. The authors of this important book engage the question of how dismantling racism in the 21st Century has to be different from the work of the past and offer ways for that journey to progress.
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This was an interesting collection of articles about racism and what can be done to address the issue of racism in our time. This was required reading for an Education for Ministry (EfM) class that I am currently enrolled in. The book provides a good foundation to initiate conversations about racism in our day and what we can do about it. It also provides various insights into the topic of racism too. ( )
  Jeremias75 | Jan 3, 2022 |
Nine essays on racism in America by black and white authors that explore how to talk honestly about race as step towards dismantling racism. Covered are Howard Thurman’s ideal of a Beloved Community sparked by his 1936 meeting with Mohandas Gandhi that profoundly influenced Martin Luther King, jr. The importance of understanding that racism is a system that has been constructed because it benefits a portion of society, who are loath to give up its benefits. It is a both a political and social construct that is more than a visceral hatred of another group of people. Repentance and reconciliation will require not only self-examination, but also patient listening to others whose experience is different from your own even when they may express it in anger with harsh words. It is a spiritual discipline that will be neither easy, nor produce speedy results, but that success will come bit by bit in the fullness of time. ( )
  MaowangVater | Dec 9, 2020 |
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Christian Nonfiction. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML: Range of voices: Meeks, Rob Wright, Luther Smith, Diane D'Souza A serious invitation to the serious work of developing a new conversation on race Foreword by Sojourners' Jim Wallis Study guide included While the dream of a "Post-Racial" America remains unfulfilled, the struggle against racism continues, with tools both new and old. This book is a report from the front, combining personal stories and theoretical and theological reflection with examples of the work of dismantling racism and methods for creating the much-needed "safe space" for dialogue on race to occur. Its aim is to demonstrate the ways in which a new conversation on race can be forged. The book addresses issues such as reasons for the failure of past efforts to achieve genuine racial reconciliation, the necessity to honor rage and grief in the process of moving to forgiveness and racial healing, and what whites with privilege and blacks without similar privilege must do to move the work of dismantling racism forward. The authors of this important book engage the question of how dismantling racism in the 21st Century has to be different from the work of the past and offer ways for that journey to progress. .

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