When it comes to topics like the one of this book, does anyone else’s brain and emotions go all over the place? Well, I’m not one to stir the pot much (that’s why my cooking’s not that great), but as a life-long learner, I read often and so I read. Some things I agree with, other things I don’t, some things stretch me, other things reaffirm what I already know to be true or false, some things teach me, other things teach me how to teach others, but I have found one thing to be true when I read, I grow. And this one of those growing-me-type books. Is there discomfort? Yes. Are there some “feels?” Yes. Are there questions? Yes. That’s how you know a book will change you after you read it. I’ll let you decide what you think of this book. It’s not a “light” read but I encourage you to read beyond your comfort and tell me what you learn.
The Color of Compromise undoes the tendency to skip the hard parts of history and directs the reader’s attention to the realities that have been underexamined because they cahllenge the triumphalist view of American Christianity. – Jemar Tisby
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*The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
Released: January 22, 2019
Publisher: Zondervan
Page Count: 256
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I love that this is a more historical look at what has happened to our country as a whole and how that has led up to where we are today as a nation. This book will take us from the “early colonial days, through slavery and the Civil War, covering the tragedy of Jim Crow laws and the victories of the Civil Rights era, to today’s Black Lives Matter movement.” You can disagree with someone’s opinions or beliefs or values but you can’t disagree with someone’s experience or story. So let us listen to the stories and tell our own as well.
About the Author
Jemar Tisby (B.A., University of Notre Dame, Mdiv Reformed Theological Seminary) is the president of The Witness, a Black Christian Collective where he writes about race, religion, politics, and culture. He is also the co-host of the Pass The Mic podcast. He has spoken nation-wide at conferences and his writing has been featured in the Washington Post, CNN, and Vox. Jemar is a PhD student in History at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century.
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