A Burning House
Book description
Despite the civil rights progress he fought for and saw on the horizon in the 1950s and '60s, Martin Luther King Jr.-increasingly concerned by America's moral vision, admitted-"I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."
In A Burning House, Brandon Washington contends that American Evangelicalism is…
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Brandon is a former student, a colleague in ministry, and a good friend. As an African American, others have told him he should abandon evangelicalism because it is too white, conservative, and racist. He has been tempted to do so.
Instead, he has written this manifesto of what is deeply wrong in the movement and what is even more profoundly life-giving, and why he remains a part of it.
For anyone who cares about this wing of the Christian church and how it is perceived by many non-whites (and many non-Christians, for that matter), this book is essential reading.
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