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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... friendship, family, social life, neighborhood and church. This unlikely laboratory for reconciliation was in Mississippi's capital city, in the black community known as West Jackson, home of Voice of Calvary Fellowship Church. There a ...
... friendship, family, social life, neighborhood and church. This unlikely laboratory for reconciliation was in Mississippi's capital city, in the black community known as West Jackson, home of Voice of Calvary Fellowship Church. There a ...
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... friendship and contact between blacks and whites is much more frequent than acknowledged in the media. Indisputable evidence of progress is summed up in that Gallup survey's startling conclusion: “A portrait of a separate America for ...
... friendship and contact between blacks and whites is much more frequent than acknowledged in the media. Indisputable evidence of progress is summed up in that Gallup survey's startling conclusion: “A portrait of a separate America for ...
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... friendship, Spencer and I came to the same conclusion: integration and reconciliation are not the same. The two battles should be waged with different rules and on separate planes. Integration is a political and social concept; the ...
... friendship, Spencer and I came to the same conclusion: integration and reconciliation are not the same. The two battles should be waged with different rules and on separate planes. Integration is a political and social concept; the ...
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... friendship and ministry proved that it is still possible for the embodiment of reconciliation, this new family of God, to become visible on this earth. We wrote not as “experts”—not as sociologists, political scientists, economists or ...
... friendship and ministry proved that it is still possible for the embodiment of reconciliation, this new family of God, to become visible on this earth. We wrote not as “experts”—not as sociologists, political scientists, economists or ...
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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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