Every Tribe: Stories of Diverse Saints Serving a Diverse World

The Bible tells us that Jesus is for every tribe, language, people, and nation, but why are all the saints in our stained-glass windows white? In Every Tribe, editor Sharon Prentis and a diverse team of contributors present a powerful challenge to the bias that has taken hold of storytelling in the Church. They tell the true and surprising stories of the lives of twelve Christian saints, including St Augustine and St George, who came from present-day Algeria and Turkey. This book is a celebration of the true diversity of Christian saints and will inspire the Church to become what it is meant to be: a rainbow people of God serving the diverse needs of a diverse world.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 160 pages
\n Publication date: 18 April 2019
\n Publisher: SPCK Publishing
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The Bible tells us that Jesus is for every tribe, language, people, and nation, so why are all the saints in our stained-glass windows white? In Every Tribe, editor Sharon Prentis and a diverse team of contributors present a powerful challenge to the bias that has taken hold of storytelling in the Church. They tell the true and, in some cases, surprising stories of the lives of twelve Christian saints, including St. Augustine, who came from present-day Algeria, and St. George, an immigrant with a Turkish father and a Palestinian mother. This is a book of saints for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of how church history has been whitewashed throughout the centuries and how that has impacted the way we think about race and diversity within the church today. A celebration of the true diversity of Christian saints, it will inspire the church to become what it is meant to be: the rainbow people of God serving the diverse needs of a diverse world.

In Every Tribe, editor Sharon Prentis and a diverse team of contributors present a powerful challenge to the bias that has taken hold of storytelling in the Church. They tell the true and, in some cases, surprising stories of the lives of twelve Christian saints, including St. Augustine, who came from present-day Algeria, and St. George, an immigrant with a Turkish father and a Palestinian mother. This is a book of saints for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of how church history has been whitewashed throughout the centuries and how that has impacted the way we think about race and diversity within the church today. A celebration of the true diversity of Christian saints, it will inspire the church to become what it is meant to be: the rainbow people of God serving the diverse needs of a diverse world.

\n Weight: 202g\n
Dimension: 193 x 125 x 14 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780281080854\n \n