michaelwaustin 's review for:

Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCaulley

5.0

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I can see why this book won the Christianity Today book of the year award. It deals with so many important issues, and connects biblical interpretation and theology to them in sound and helpful ways. I learned so much from this book. On top of that, the writing is very accessible. I was expecting more of the stilted prose of contemporary scholarship, but the book isn't like that. Yet it is still rigorous and thought-provoking. Those interested in what the Bible says and implies about race, slavery, policing, protesting injustice, the rage and pain that result from the oppression of black people, and, ultimately, a hope (grounded in the Bible) that persists in an unjust world will profit greatly from reading this excellent book.