Books – Racism – Sunday to Saturday

BOOK: Jesus and the Disinherited

January 7, 2022April 25, 2022 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

When a major cultural event, such as George Floyd's murder, shifts the focus of a country, it is easy to assume that critiques of the American church and racism are a recent phenomenon. Oftentimes we are simply unaware of prophetic voices from the the past such as Howard Thurman and his quintessential Jesus and the Disinherited. Penned in 1949, Thurman critiques the church and its seduction with power while detailing the psyche and motivation of the oppressed. His ultimate conclusion is that belief in Jesus, in conjunction with community, can empower the disinherited.

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BOOK: The Color of Compromise

July 30, 2021November 9, 2021 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

To this day church services across the nation are some of the most segregated times of the week. Is this by random chance or was this intentional? Author Jemar Tisby details the sordid history of the American church and its complicity with racism in the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Color of Compromise.

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BOOK: Worse Than Slavery

March 22, 2021August 19, 2021 SundaytoSaturday.com4 Comments

A history of another brutal part of America's past that is glossed over Worse Than Slavery tells the story of convict leasing, a thinly veiled system of slavery, through the songs of convicts, court documents, and local newspapers.

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BOOK: The Gospel in Color

February 16, 2021April 21, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Grounded in Genesis in the Imago Dei The Gospel in Color firmly traces the evolution of racism back to the garden of Eden when sin entered the world. But, Jesus coming into the world and dying on a cross allows us to be reconciled to him while modeling what it takes to be reconciled to each other.

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BOOK: The Trouble I’ve Seen

February 12, 2021August 21, 2021 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Primarily written to the American church pastor Drew Hart weaves personal narratives with a little bit of church history, a little bit of American history and a little bit of theological history as a call to the church to change the way it views racism.

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BOOK: How to Fight Racism

February 9, 2021April 21, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby is a book to help you take the next step when you want concrete, actionable advice and recommendations on how to work against racism. It is a Christian's guidebook on being an anti-racist similar to how Compassion and Conviction is a guidebook for Christians engaging with politics.

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BOOK: At the Hands of Persons Unknown

January 14, 2021May 27, 2023 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Sure, most Americans have heard of lynching and perhaps it was perfunctorily talked about in a high school history class, but few understand how common and ruthlessly callous it was. In At the Hands of Persons Unknown Philip Dray takes a comprehensive, chrological look at how common, and brutal, lynching was in America.

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BOOK: How to Be an Antiracist

January 13, 2021August 21, 2021 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

How to be an Antiracist is all about reprogramming our minds. In the author's opinion, there is no such thing as a non-racist. You are either racist or antiracist. The difference between a non-racist and an antiracist is the antiracist recognizes that racism exists, and does something about it, especially in the antiracist's mindset.

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BOOK: Unsettling Truths

January 12, 2021June 13, 2022 SundaytoSaturday.com1 Comment

Exceptionalism. Triumphalism. White Supremacy. Mythology. These are just a few of the words that are the bedrock of the United States of America and the white American church. The blending of Christianity with conquest dating back to the 1400's to the Doctrine of Discovery influencing the racist and sexist wording of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution to boarding schools and internment camps justifying white supremacy what people of color and white people have experienced living in the United State is vastly different.

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BOOK: Be the Bridge

November 15, 2020August 21, 2021 SundaytoSaturday.comLeave a comment

Weaving her personal experience with being in a predominantly white church and the beginning of the Be the Bridge program Latasha Morrison provides details on how one can move from acknowledging and lamenting our racist past to confessing our complicity in it to repentance and full restoration.

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