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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
2 reviews
kaitlinlovesbooks's review
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
Highly recommended reading for anyone who grew up in or is currently a member of the white American Evangelical church. Learning about the church's messy history is uncomfortable, but so necessary for repentance and growth.
Graphic: Violence, Mass/school shootings, Hate crime, Death, and Child death
Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Slavery
charity1313's review against another edition
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
An excellent overview that exactly meets the objectives set out at the start of the book - a broad history of race in the US and then placing the church and its responses within that context. The book spans a lot of years in not a lot of pages. Tisby devotes a large number of pages to the general history, not just the church history, more than I was expecting and probably more than I personally needed because I've done a lot of similar reading in the last couple of years but not something that can be assumed. It's a Must-Read for all churches who want to invest in racial reconciliation (which should be all churches). He lays out clearly why and how race both has been and continues to be problematic in the American church. He doesn't stop with just identifying the problem though. He offers a whole list of solutions that can be taken by churches and individual Christians in support of reconciliation.
Graphic: Racism and Violence
Moderate: Hate crime, Torture, Slavery, Sexual violence, and Religious bigotry
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