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[Jim Wallis] ✓ America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America ¸ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America Personal and Powerful One Sunday I stood in the church vestibule greeting congregants as they exited. One man complimented me on the sermon and then asked this somewhat unusual question: “How long do you think it took to prepare that?”“Fifty years,” I told him. That was my age at the time.The best messages have to steep for a while, and clearly the message of A. TWO STARS. AMERICA'S ORIGINAL SIN: RACISM, WHITE PRIVILEGE, AND THE BRIDGE TO A NEW AMERICA (2016), BY JIM WALL
| Title | : | America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (978 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1515953777 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-04 |
| Language | : | English |
The church has been slow to respond, and Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of the week. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. The old patterns of white privilege are colliding with the changing demographics of a diverse nation. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Yet as recent tragedies confirm, we continue to suffer from the legacy of racism. Fifty years ago, Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church tha
Personal and Powerful One Sunday I stood in the church vestibule greeting congregants as they exited. One man complimented me on the sermon and then asked this somewhat unusual question: “How long do you think it took to prepare that?”“Fifty years,” I told him. That was my age at the time.The best messages have to steep for a while, and clearly the message of A. TWO STARS. AMERICA'S ORIGINAL SIN: RACISM, WHITE PRIVILEGE, AND THE BRIDGE TO A NEW AMERICA (2016), BY JIM WALLIS Midwest Reader I ordered this title pre-publication.I wanted to like the book; but the truth is that I did not. It was a frustrating read for me. Nevertheless, it gave me a lot to think about.Through the course of attempting to articulate what it was that troubled me in these pages, I re-read early chapters of Lillian Smith's 1949 classic, KILLERS OF THE DREAM (which was revise. Good but painful and surprisingly practical. Victoria It's hard to call it a good book when it makes you feel so uncomfortable--but that was the point. I admit I had a chip on my shoulder as I started the book. I wondered if it were going to be a long list of what is wrong with America regarding race with no suggestions for solutions. So I committed to writing down every solution he suggested if I found any. I was p
"A thought-provoking plea to white evangelicals and white Christians in general." ---Library Journal
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