The Heart of Racial Justice (eBook)

How Soul Change Leads to Social Change

Brenda Salter McNeil, Rick Richardson (Autoren)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
IVP (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4874-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Racial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems the church faces. It hinders our effectiveness as one body of believers. It damages our witness. Why won't this problem just go away?Because it is a spiritual battle.In response, we must employ spiritual weapons-prayer, repentance, forgiveness. In this book Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson provide a model of racial reconciliation, social justice, and spiritual healing that creates both individual and communal transformation. Read this book if you want to learn how to - use your faith as a force for change, not as a smoke screen for self-protection - embrace your true self and renounce false racial identities - receive and extend forgiveness as an act of racial reconciliation - experience personal transformation through the healing of painful racial memories - engage in social action by developing ongoing crosscultural partnershipsThis classic is now part of the IVP Signature Collection, which features special editions of iconic books in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of InterVarsity Press. It includes a list of definitions and a discussion and activity guide for groups. A new companion Bible study is also available.

Brenda Salter McNeil is an ordained Christian minister, teacher and evangelist. Through her ministry, Salter McNeil Associates, she is a frequent speaker at churches, colleges and conferences nationwide. She previously served on the staff of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and has been a keynote speaker at several Urbana Student Missions Conventions. She is also coauthor (with Rick Richardson) of The Heart of Racial Justice.

Autor

Rick Richardson is director of the Billy Graham Center Institute and its Church Evangelism Initiative and professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College Graduate School. His books include You Found Me, Reimagining Evangelism, and Evangelism Outside the Box. John Perkins, the son of a sharecropper, grew up in Mississippi amid dire poverty and rampant racism only to become a recognized civil rights leader as an adult. He is the founder of Voice of Calvary Ministries in Mendenhall, Mississippi, Harambee Ministries in Pasadena, California, and the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA). His books include Let Justice Roll Down, With Justice for All, and Making Neighborhoods Whole. Brenda Salter McNeil is a dynamic speaker, an author, and a trailblazer with over thirty years of experience in the ministry of racial, ethnic, and gender reconciliation. She is an associate professor of reconciliation studies in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University and is also the author of Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 and A Credible Witness.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The IVP Signature Collection
• Reihe/Serie: The IVP Signature Collection
• Vorwort: John M. Perkins
• Verlagsort: Lisle
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: BIPOC • Black lives matter • Christian Life • christian racism • crosscultural ministry • Discipleship • healing from racial trauma • Institutional Racism • IVP Signature Collection • liberation • multicultural church • multicultural ministry • multiethnic church • multiethnic ministry • political witness • Prophetic witness • race in the church • racial healing • racial injustice • Racial Justice • racial reconciliation • racial trauma • Racism • Racism in the church • Reconciliation • Social Justice • Spiritual Warfare • Systemic Racism
• ISBN-10: 0-8308-4874-6 / 0830848746
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-4874-4 / 9780830848744