The Color of Compromise
Book description
A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller!
An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.
The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling,…
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1 author picked The Color of Compromise as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When I finished this book, I felt I’d just finished a survey class on the history of the most important and consequential intersections between American racism and the American church.
I read it with a handful of other white folks who had no idea any of these specific historical moves had been made to keep white/black people separate in the founding of the major denominations, and it produced great conversation not only about the origins of our modern racial tensions within the church but also how we might move through them to a better place.
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From Ed's list on Christians racial sensitivity to sensibility.
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