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    The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
    The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
    The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
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    The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

    Written by Jemar Tisby and Lecrae Moore

    Narrated by Jemar Tisby

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    An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.

    The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. Equal parts painful and inspirational, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain racist ideas and practices. You will be guided in thinking through concrete solutions for improved race relations and a racially inclusive church.

    The Color of Compromise:

    • Takes you on a historical, sociological, and religious journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War
    • Covers the tragedy of Jim Crow laws, the victories of the Civil Rights era, and the strides of today's Black Lives Matter movement
    • Reveals the cultural and institutional tables we have to flip in order to bring about meaningful integration
    • Charts a path forward to replace established patterns and systems of complicity with bold, courageous, immediate action
    • Is a perfect book for pastors and other faith leaders, students, non-students, book clubs, small group studies, history lovers, and all lifelong learners

    The Color of Compromise is not a call to shame or a platform to blame white evangelical Christians. It is a call from a place of love and desire to fight for a more racially unified church that no longer compromises what the Bible teaches about human dignity and equality. A call that challenges black and white Christians alike to standup now and begin implementing the concrete ways Tisby outlines, all for a more equitable and inclusive environment among God's people. Starting today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9780310597308
    Author

    Jemar Tisby

    Jemar Tisby (BA, University of Notre Dame; MDiv, Reformed Theological Seminary) s the New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and the award-winning How to Fight Racism. He is a historian who studies race, religion, and social movements, and serves as a professor at Simmons College of Kentucky, a historically Black college. He is also the founder of The Witness, Inc. an organization dedicated to Black uplift from a Christian perspective. He has written for national news outlets such as The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Religion News Service. He has offered television commentary on CNN and is frequently called upon to provide expert insight on current events related to race and Christianity. He has spoken nationwide at colleges, universities, and other organizations.

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    • 5/5
      This is a necessary read that reveals the history of race between the White and Black church. It summarizes the opportunities the white American Church could have made the right choices in regard to racial reconciliation and did not. It is a hard read of the realties of the white Church where it did not stand in solidarity with its brothers and sisters of color. But it is also a hopeful book outlining in the last chapters how the Church can still change course and show the world the brotherly love only Jesus and His Gospel can produce.

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    • 5/5
      Informative. Direct. Contemplative. I encourage all American followers of Christ to read this and allow the Holy Spirit to convict you and teach you.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This is absolutely breathtaking! Lucid, clear, and so revealing. Tisby exposes the deepest part of our common failure as Christians in the face of the dehumanizing moments of slavery.
      The originality of his work is not only in the way he presented the past but his ability to point out how the past is still present in our society. His take on what could be done to amend the centuries of the wickedness of our Church is excellent.
      Listen to it and grow in your knowledge

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    • 1/5
      A biased look at racial history in the US especially the Christian church.
    • 1/5
      Despite claims to the contrary, this book is a legalistic appropriation and reapplication of marxist ideology. Mr. Tisby accepts new definitions of words without critical analysis. The most helpful part of the book was his discussion of the horrific instances of lynching in this country. What a grievous note of the depravity of man's heart. God will judge. That being said, this book is helpful for those wanting to know what the radical, antiracists are advocating. But you could save yourself the time and just watch CNN for a few minutes.
    • 5/5
      I’m a white woman who grew up evangelical. I found this book very enlightening in its historical survey and powerful in its call to action.
    • 5/5
      This is a challenging book. All Christian leaders and elders need to understand the history of the Church’s entanglement with racism. I thoroughly recommend this book as a prime source to learn that history. I don’t agree with everything Tisby puts forward, but the sincerity of his motives kept me from ever wanting to disengage. Jemar Tisby clearly loves the Church and through this book is speaking the truth in love in order to build up his brothers and sisters to maturity.
    • 4/5
      Jamar Tisby, thank you.

      ‘The Color is Compromise’ is a thoughtful, well researched survey of the history of racism in America, focusing on American Protestant Christianity’s complicity and involvement in it. Because it is an historical survey, there are many stories left untold, and stories only mentioned.

      I came in with only a tiny amount of knowledge about slavery and racism in America, and this book challenged many of my assumptions. Hearing the whole story of American slavery and racism gave me a sense of how it all ties together. I was shocked and disturbed as I noticed patterns set at our nations beginning (and our church’s beginning) that I can still see today. I have much more to learn, but now I know more about what I don’t know, and that’s a start.

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    • 5/5
      An excellent unpacking of American Christianity's history of and experiences with racism. A must-read.
    • 5/5
      A rehearsal of American history focusing primarily on the willingness of professing Christians to compromise Biblical standards and allow for the perpetuation of horrific treatment of black people in the name of compromise to various forces and powers.The author recognizes that many works have been written on American history and the treatment of black people in slavery, under Jim Crow, and to the modern day. He will provide the basic outline of events and explains how it happened that black people were brought over as slaves to the US, how the slave system was justified, the Civil War and Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow in the South, the racism of the North, the move toward civil rights, and the rise of the Religious Right. At each moment, however, he pauses to consider how America could have taken different routes, and how Christians could have made conscientious stands in conviction based on Biblical principles, but instead elected to capitulate to economic concerns, accepting and perpetuating claims of racial supremacy, and generally proving unwilling to stand up against the culture of dehumanization, terrorism, and violence which black people have suffered for generations. He also does well at showing how racism remains in America in various ways, and the associations between the rise of the Religious Right and the attempt to uphold the last vestiges of segregation. It's uncomfortable reading for white Christians to see so many aspects of their spiritual heritage discussed as ways in which the system of slavery and dehumanization of black people was justified, particularly the declaration that the church has its realm and thus nothing to say in terms of social issues of the day. Highly recommended for all Christians to consider.

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