All God's Children

How Confronting Buried History Can Build Racial Solidarity

Terence Lester

• Publisher: IVP
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781514005965
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Religione

The more you understand someone's history, the better you can see their humanity. This is true for individuals as well as for society at large. Race relations have suffered because of the erasure of important Black history and cultural context. As we fill in the gaps of our collective knowledge, communities can grow in understanding, empathy, and solidarity.Terence Lester shares the buried history of the struggles Black people have faced against unjust systems. He tells powerful stories of courage, injustice, pain, and triumph, including ones from his own history. He also unpacks the sociological and cultural dynamics of unconscious bias and inattentional ignorance that keep us apart, and how they can be overcome. This honest account of what it's like to be Black in America paves the way for the church to move beyond showing support from a distance toward loving one another in long-term solidarity, advocacy, and friendship.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by Daniel Hill
• Introduction: Everyone Has a Story
• 1 A Past I Could Not Touch
• 2 A History Few Wanted to Understand
• 3 God Is Justice
• 4 Confronting Buried History
• 5 Unpacking Biases
• 6 Engaging Differences
• 7 Engage Your Community
• 8 Practice Proximity
• 9 Sit at Another's Table
• 10 Break the Silence
• Conclusion: Be the Solution
• Afterword
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix: Further Educational Material
• Notes
• Praise for All God's Children
• About the Author
• Also by Terence Lester
• About Love Beyond Walls
• More Titles from InterVarsity Press
• Copyright