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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Page 9
... knew: that Rwanda, where black-on- black killing fields were soaked with the blood of one million people of the Tutsi tribe in the 1990s, was the most evangelized, Christianized country in central Africa; that eight of every ten ...
... knew: that Rwanda, where black-on- black killing fields were soaked with the blood of one million people of the Tutsi tribe in the 1990s, was the most evangelized, Christianized country in central Africa; that eight of every ten ...
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... knew there was an alternative, that racial redemption is possible here and now. More Than Equals was the outcome of a long give-and-take between black and white Christians that continues today. The two of us lived in a rare American ...
... knew there was an alternative, that racial redemption is possible here and now. More Than Equals was the outcome of a long give-and-take between black and white Christians that continues today. The two of us lived in a rare American ...
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... knew deep down that they didn't want to. Then, as more of your kind showed up, the original dancers slowly and inconspicuously moved their party to another room. Before you knew it, you and your friends were the only ones left in the ...
... knew deep down that they didn't want to. Then, as more of your kind showed up, the original dancers slowly and inconspicuously moved their party to another room. Before you knew it, you and your friends were the only ones left in the ...
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... knew down to the core of my being that what we were doing was right in the sight of God. Until my school years, most of us didn't give much thought to hopes for racial justice. For years we had heard the grownups talking “hush talk ...
... knew down to the core of my being that what we were doing was right in the sight of God. Until my school years, most of us didn't give much thought to hopes for racial justice. For years we had heard the grownups talking “hush talk ...
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... knew my father. He took his Christianity more seriously than most. He had left Mississippi in the late 1940s after his brother was killed by a white law-enforcement officer. But he'd returned with his family thirteen years later as a ...
... knew my father. He took his Christianity more seriously than most. He had left Mississippi in the late 1940s after his brother was killed by a white law-enforcement officer. But he'd returned with his family thirteen years later as a ...
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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More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel Spencer Perkins,Chris Rice Limited preview - 2009 |
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