Speaking of Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations About Racism

This book will serve as an introduction as well as a handbook for facilitating discussions on race and provides clear steps for readers to overcome their fears of talking about race and engaging in genuine dialogue across color lines. Just as we see in the world, there is broken trust between ethnicities in our churches. We see it on Twitter. We hear it in conversations. Every few weeks a new racially charged tragedy goes viral. When it does, we know what will happen: people take sides, while others feel trapped, torn, and confused in the middle. Among the many responses to these racial challenges, one is all too common: We shy away from dealing honestly about the divides, and in so doing, we hide from each other--hindering genuine love which bears witness to a watching world about Jesus. Even if we sit in the same churches, we wear masks to avoid one of our greatest fears: sharing what we sincerely think about race and racism with each other--either because we don't care to, or we do