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Sto caricando le informazioni... We Need To Talk About Race: Understanding the Black Experience in White Majority Churches (2019)di Ben Lindsay
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It's time for the Church to start talking about race. From the UK Church's complicity in the transatlantic slave trade to the whitewashing of Christianity throughout history, the Church has a lot to answer for when it comes to race relations. Christianity has been dubbed the white man's religion, yet the Bible speaks of an impartial God and shows us a diverse body of believers. Ben Lindsay offers eye-opening insights into the black religious experience, challenging the status quo in white majority churches. Filled with examples from real-life stories, including his own, and insightful questions, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of race relations in the Church in the UK and shows us how we can work together to create a truly inclusive church community. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It could easily have become a heavy and guilt-inducing read for anyone in the majority culture, particularly white church leaders. He avoids that, perhaps by pulling his punches by giving relatively few examples of poor treatment in British churches, but instead giving grounds for optimism and suggested ways forward. To help this, each chapter finishes with different questions to ponder, addressed to people of colour, white church leaders, and white church members.
In this relatively short book (it feels shorter than its listed 216 pages), he moves from history to theology, to current examples of Christians of colour disadvantaged, as well as invested in and promoted. He references the US context (including a brief mention of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by Police killings of unarmed blacks), but rightly dwells instead on the less well-known UK cultural context.
This is a challenge to us all, and all the better for being thoughtfully and kindly written. ( )