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4.71 AVERAGE
4.71 AVERAGE
December 2021:
This is the second time this year I’ve read through Moore’s antiracism book, and I feel like I got just as much from it this time around. Reading through it with a group was valuable, and having her voice in my head as she speaks with the Spirit has helped me love & parent & protest with grit and grace. Seeing the humanity & the image of God in others and telling better stories about people I don’t understand is difficult work but has been an invaluable practice.
I can’t recommend this enough, and especially if you are a Christian, this needs to be on your short list. Moore has given us a gift, & I don’t intend to waste it.
March 2021:
I’ve been doing anti-racism learning/unlearning/reading pretty consistently for the last 2.5 years, and I felt myself growing more closed off, less interested in conversation if it wasn’t with people who were already at my level or beyond, the grace I was offered when I first began this education had fully left me, and I could tell I was becoming a harsher, more cynical version of myself, and though I knew I didn’t like it, I could not pinpoint why it was happening.
Enter Osheta.
It may sound dramatic to say it, but this book has re-focused my life. As I was reading one day I turned to my husband and said, “There is no Jesus in my anti-racism work.” It was an epiphany. Jesus & my Christian faith are (re: should be) central to who I am. But aside from knowing 100% Jesus would be “on my side,” this anti-racism aspect that had become huge in my life completely disregarded that faith aspect. How did that happen? How could I know that Jesus & I would have the same goals & yet be acting nothing like him in order to achieve them?
Osheta tells us we need to engage with each other’s stories with “curiosity and mercy.” (I’ve said that phrase out loud to myself dozens of times since I’ve read it, and it’s still blowing my mind.) She says that we have to start with Belovedness as our base. That we must know and own our Belovedness, and that must then overflow into the Belovedness of everyone else. I had entrenched myself in fear, & my fragility had me putting up walls everywhere, and Osheta calmly, kindly, but forcefully, reminded me that to put up those walls is in direct opposition to what Jesus would do. We must approach this important, Godly work with equal parts Grit & Grace. Too far in either direction, and we cannot effectively be the Peacemakers we are called to be.
I know this is a book I will return to over and over again. And I know this has rejuvenated in me that which I had lost. I am so grateful to Osheta for giving this to us, and I highly encourage all white people, but especially white Christians, to read her work.
This is the second time this year I’ve read through Moore’s antiracism book, and I feel like I got just as much from it this time around. Reading through it with a group was valuable, and having her voice in my head as she speaks with the Spirit has helped me love & parent & protest with grit and grace. Seeing the humanity & the image of God in others and telling better stories about people I don’t understand is difficult work but has been an invaluable practice.
I can’t recommend this enough, and especially if you are a Christian, this needs to be on your short list. Moore has given us a gift, & I don’t intend to waste it.
March 2021:
I’ve been doing anti-racism learning/unlearning/reading pretty consistently for the last 2.5 years, and I felt myself growing more closed off, less interested in conversation if it wasn’t with people who were already at my level or beyond, the grace I was offered when I first began this education had fully left me, and I could tell I was becoming a harsher, more cynical version of myself, and though I knew I didn’t like it, I could not pinpoint why it was happening.
Enter Osheta.
It may sound dramatic to say it, but this book has re-focused my life. As I was reading one day I turned to my husband and said, “There is no Jesus in my anti-racism work.” It was an epiphany. Jesus & my Christian faith are (re: should be) central to who I am. But aside from knowing 100% Jesus would be “on my side,” this anti-racism aspect that had become huge in my life completely disregarded that faith aspect. How did that happen? How could I know that Jesus & I would have the same goals & yet be acting nothing like him in order to achieve them?
Osheta tells us we need to engage with each other’s stories with “curiosity and mercy.” (I’ve said that phrase out loud to myself dozens of times since I’ve read it, and it’s still blowing my mind.) She says that we have to start with Belovedness as our base. That we must know and own our Belovedness, and that must then overflow into the Belovedness of everyone else. I had entrenched myself in fear, & my fragility had me putting up walls everywhere, and Osheta calmly, kindly, but forcefully, reminded me that to put up those walls is in direct opposition to what Jesus would do. We must approach this important, Godly work with equal parts Grit & Grace. Too far in either direction, and we cannot effectively be the Peacemakers we are called to be.
I know this is a book I will return to over and over again. And I know this has rejuvenated in me that which I had lost. I am so grateful to Osheta for giving this to us, and I highly encourage all white people, but especially white Christians, to read her work.
Had to read quickly for a book discussion, but need to reread more slowly to absorb all the pain, challenge, knowledge, love, and more that Osheta presents.
Will return to this when I'm no longer super mentally ill.
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Osheta is transparent and vulnerable and kind and I am (I hope) a better person for having read this book.
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What a powerful and compassionate book. Using her own stories, the Sermon on the Mount, and spirituals, Osheta Moore invites us into the work of anti-racism peacemaking with so much compassion that we are not owed. We're let into the intimate parts of her mind and her experiences in a way that really feels like talking to an old friend. She doesn't hold back from challenging, though, and with so much grace dismantles every excuse you could have for not doing the work. This book felt like a gift.
In Dear White Peacemakers author Osheta Moore welcomes her readers into a compassionate, personal, and honest conversation about racism in the United States, and then invites White peacemakers to bring their whole, beloved selves to the much-needed work of dismantling white supremacy and pursuing justice and racial reconciliation.
Written with a pastor’s heart, Moore’s passion and compassion for justice and her belief in the belovedness of all people pours out through her words on every page. This book challenged and encouraged me and left me feeling seen, valued, and empowered. I wish I could press this book into the hands of every American Christian.
Thank you to Herald Press and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book for review.
Written with a pastor’s heart, Moore’s passion and compassion for justice and her belief in the belovedness of all people pours out through her words on every page. This book challenged and encouraged me and left me feeling seen, valued, and empowered. I wish I could press this book into the hands of every American Christian.
Thank you to Herald Press and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book for review.
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Gives subtle shifts in perspective to both hot issues, and Biblical passages well known but not well understood. Nuanced and full of hope. One of those books that has left me a better person (or at least determined to be), though also wishing for a pragmatic to do list (which wouldn’t actually be fitting at all… it would just feel better). This is a title I will highly recommend. Pairs well with Daniel Hill’s White Awake.