Reconciliation Blues

A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity

By Edward Gilbreath

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Product Details

Line: IVP Books
Length: 207 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: hardcover
Published: November 2006

ISBN-10: 0-8308-3367-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-3367-2
IVP Order Code: 3367

Prologue: Singing the "Reconciliation Blues"
Chapter 1: Living in Two Worlds
Chapter 2: "Evangelical"--There's Just Something About That Name
Chapter 3: "Why Do All the Black Students Sit Together?"
Chapter 4: A Prophet Out of Harlem: The Legacy of Tom Skinner
Chapter 5: The First Shall Be Last--On Being the "First Black"
Chapter 6: When Blacks Quit Evangelical Institutions
Chapter 7: Waking Up to the Dream--Evangelicals and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter 8: Is Jesse Jackson an Evangelical?
Chapter 9: "God Is Not a Democrat or a Republican"
Chapter 10: The "Other" Others
Chapter 11: Let All Creation Sing
Chapter 12: Getting Preachy
Epilogue: Do We Still Need Racial Reconciliation?
Acknowledgments
Discussion Guide
Notes