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  • Embrace: God's Radical Shalom for a Divided World, By Leroy Barber
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    Embrace

    God's Radical Shalom for a Divided World

    by Leroy Barber

    The walls between us seem impenetrable.We live in an age of strife and division. Factors such as race, class, values and lifestyles keep us from connecting with others in meaningful ways. It's easy to avoid or ignore those who make us uncomfortable and those we simply do not like, but God's call to the church is to do just the opposite.Leroy Barber has spent decades pursuing reconciliation and justice ...

  • Defending Black Faith: Answers to Tough Questions About African-American Christianity, By Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry
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    Defending Black Faith

    Answers to Tough Questions About African-American Christianity

    by Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry

    Craig Keener and Glenn Usry's highly acclaimed Black Man's Religion showed in impressive detail that Christianity and Afrocentricity can go together. Now they turn to specific, nitty-gritty questions put to the black church by non-Christians:

    • Is everything good in Christianity plagiarized from traditional African religions?
    • Isn't it intolerant to say Christ is the only ...
  • Black Man's Religion: Can Christianity Be Afrocentric?, By Glenn Usry and Craig S. Keener
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    Black Man's Religion

    Can Christianity Be Afrocentric?

    by Glenn Usry and Craig S. Keener

    Some say Christianity is white man's religion. . . .And it is true that there is a long and ugly history of abuse of African-Americans at the hands of Anglo Christians. Afrocentric interpretations of history often point to slavery, lynchings and the like as proof that Christianity is inherently antiblack.But Craig Keener and Glen Usry contend that Christianity can be Afrocentric. In this massively ...

  • The Hispanic Challenge: Opportunities Confronting the Church, By Manuel Ortiz
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    The Hispanic Challenge

    Opportunities Confronting the Church

    by Manuel Ortiz

    "The Sleeping Giant" is the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S.--the Hispanic community. Hispanics, especially Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Mexicans, are changing society and the church. As a second-generation Puerto Rican, born and reared in El Barrio of New York City, Manuel Ortiz knows first-hand what it is like to be a Hispanic in the U.S. As a sociologist, he recognizes the exciting potential ...

  • The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures, By Justo L. González
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    The Mestizo Augustine

    A Theologian Between Two Cultures

    by Justo L. González

    Few thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo. His writings, such as Confessions and City of God, have left an indelible mark on Western Christianity. He has become so synonymous with Christianity in the West that we easily forget he was a man of two cultures: African and Greco-Roman. The mixture of African Christianity and Greco-Roman rhetoric and philosophy gave ...

  • The Colors of Culture: The Beauty of Diverse Friendships, By MelindaJoy Mingo
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    The Colors of Culture

    The Beauty of Diverse Friendships

    by MelindaJoy Mingo

    How diverse are your friendships?

    We are living in a time where fear and mistrust among people of different cultural and ethnic groups is becoming the norm rather than the exception. It appears that cultural and racial divides are expanding rather than shrinking. What can we do?

    We can learn to see every human being from God's perspective and value their experiences ...

  • Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World, By Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp
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    Being White

    Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World

    by Paula Harris and Doug Schaupp

    What does it mean to be white?When you encounter people from other races or ethnicities, you may become suddenly aware that being white means something. Those from other backgrounds may respond to you differently or suspiciously. You may feel ambivalence about your identity as a white person. Or you may feel frustrated when a friend of another ethnicity shakes his head and says, "You just don't ...

  • Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice, By Brenda Salter McNeil
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    Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0

    Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness and Justice

    by Brenda Salter McNeil
    Foreword by Eugene Cho
    Contributions by J. Derek McNeil

    We can see the injustice and inequality in our lives and in the world. We are ready to rise up. But how, exactly, do we do this? How does one reconcile? What we need is a clear sense of direction.Based on her extensive consultingexperience with churches, colleges and organizations, Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil has created a roadmap to show us the way. She guides us through the ...