Talking about Race: Gospel Hope for Hard Conversations

American Christians find it difficult to have conversations about racism, but this book offers a fictional, racially charged tragedy to understand varying perspectives and responses. It encourages Christians to listen to one another well and seek unity in Christ, using God's Word to speak gracefully and truthfully about racism for the glory of God, the good of their neighbors, and the building up of the church.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Zondervan

Conversations about racism are as crucial as they are challenging for American Christians.
Yet, the conversation frequently becomes so unpleasant, even among the devout who profess unity in Jesus.
Why is that the case?
Why does it matter?
Can things improve, or are we irrevocably divided?
In this honest and hopeful book, pastor Isaac Adams not only shows you how to have the race conversation; he begins it for you.
By presenting a fictional, racially charged tragedy to understand varying perspectives and responses, he examines what is at stake if we ignore this conversation and why there is just as much at stake in how we have that discussion, especially across color lines—that is, with people of another ethnicity.
This unique approach offers insight into how to listen to one another well and seek unity in Christ.
Looking to God's Word, Christians can find wisdom to speak gracefully and truthfully about racism for the glory of God, the good of their neighbors, and the building up of the church.
Some feel that the time for talking is over, and that we've heard all this before.
But given how polarized American society is becoming—its churches not exempt—fresh attention on the dysfunctional communication between ethnicities is more than warranted.
Adams offers an invitation to faithfully combat the racism many of us say we hate and maintain the unity many of us say we want.
Together, we can learn to speak in such a way that we show a divided world a different world.
Talking About Race points to the starting line, not the finish line, when it comes to following Jesus amid race relations.
Its high time to begin running.

Weight: 276g
Dimension: 139 x 212 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780310124429