The Heart of Racial Justice
Subtitle: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change
Contributors: John M. Perkins (Foreword)
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: December 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780830832699
Subjects: Prayer; Religion - Christian Life; Discrimination & Racism; Christianity - Christian Life - General; Religion; Race relations; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Christian Life - Social Issues; Christianity; Religious aspects; Christian Life - General; Christianity - General
First sentence: On July 2, 1999, Ricky Byrdsong, former head basketball coach at Northwestern University, was shot and killed in Skokie, Illinois, the quiet suburban community where he lived.
Description: Racial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems the church faces. It hinders our effectiveness as one body of believers. It damages our ability to witness to and serve seekers.

Why won't this problem just go away? Because it is a spiritual battle. What should our response be in a world torn apart by prejudice, hatred and fear? We must employ spiritual weapons--prayer, repentance, forgiveness.

In this book Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson reveal a new model of racial reconciliation, social justice and spiritual healing that creates both individual and community transformation. Read this book if you want to learn how to: *use your faith as a force for change, not as a smoke-screen for self-protection *embrace your true self and renounce false racial identities *receive and extend forgiveness as an act of racial reconciliation * experience personal transformation through the healing of painful racial memories * engage in social action by developing ongoing cross-cultural partnerships.