More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the GospelRecipient of a Christianity Today 1994 Critics Choice Award! Here is living proof that white and black Christians can live together. When Spencer Perkins was sixteen years old, he visited his bloodied and swollen father (pastor John Perkins) in jail. Police had beaten the black activist severely, and Spencer never forgot the moment. He couldn't imagine living in community with a white person after that. But his plans were changed. Chris Rice grew up in very different circumstances, of "Vermont Yankee stock," attending an elite Eastern college and looking forward to a career in law and government. But his plans were changed. Spencer and Chris became not only friends, but yokefellows--partners for more than a decade in the difficult ministry of racial reconciliation. From their own hard-won experience, they show that there is hope for our frightening race problem, that whites and African-Americans can live together in peace. This revised and expanded edition includes a new introduction, a new afterword, a new study guide, updated resources and a new chapter by Spencer, "Playing the Grace Card." In compellingly practical detail, Chris and Spencer present their hope, which is boldly and radically Christian. "The cause of racial reconciliation needs yokefellows," they argue, ". . . not solely for the sake of racial harmony--even though it will lead to that--but for the witness of the gospel." |
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... African-Americans by that same year. Coupling that group with the large black working class equals 70 percent of African-Americans who have benefited from the enormous progress. As of 1993 black women with a college degree or higher ...
... African-Americans by that same year. Coupling that group with the large black working class equals 70 percent of African-Americans who have benefited from the enormous progress. As of 1993 black women with a college degree or higher ...
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... Afro-European”; 30 percent of the nation's soldiers and 10 percent of its officers are black. Who were arguably America's three most admired people at the end of the twentieth century? African-Americans Colin Powell, Michael Jordan and ...
... Afro-European”; 30 percent of the nation's soldiers and 10 percent of its officers are black. Who were arguably America's three most admired people at the end of the twentieth century? African-Americans Colin Powell, Michael Jordan and ...
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... African Americans together have accomplished and become.”3 So is the racially tense world of More Than Equals an ... America. Conviction 2: The Paradox “Even after all the progress . . . our tired, embattled relationship has reached an ...
... African Americans together have accomplished and become.”3 So is the racially tense world of More Than Equals an ... America. Conviction 2: The Paradox “Even after all the progress . . . our tired, embattled relationship has reached an ...
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... African-Americans as well as many aggrieved European-Americans, traumatic. . . . But they are side effects of progress, not signs of failure.” 5 The “paradox of progress” resonates with Spencer's and my experience. Often people have ...
... African-Americans as well as many aggrieved European-Americans, traumatic. . . . But they are side effects of progress, not signs of failure.” 5 The “paradox of progress” resonates with Spencer's and my experience. Often people have ...
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... African-Americans especially, that is unfair, undeserved, agonizing. It is the “no pain, no gain” price of the remarkable breakthrough into the mainstream. But it is a side effect of progress, not failure. As racial progress moves ...
... African-Americans especially, that is unfair, undeserved, agonizing. It is the “no pain, no gain” price of the remarkable breakthrough into the mainstream. But it is a side effect of progress, not failure. As racial progress moves ...
Contents
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White Blinders | 70 |
Submit | 129 |
From Anger Guilt to Passion Conviction | 131 |
Weapons for the Battle | 143 |
A Reconciliation Story | 151 |
The Character of a Reconciler | 167 |
White Fear | 180 |
More Than Skin Deep | 188 |
Unlikely Comrades | 207 |
School Daze | 85 |
Black Residue | 93 |
Silence Gives Consent | 104 |
A Little Respect | 118 |
Friends Yokefellows 20 Playing the Grace Card 227 | 227 |
Resources Study Guide 265 | 265 |
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