![]() Brenda Salter McNeil calls any and all with ears to hear to be brave. "During a time requiring moral clarity and moral courage, Dr. ![]() Jennifer Harvey, author of Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America This book will move your heart and compel your feet to move as well, with others, in response to God's call to do justice." McNeil does both with clarity and with the kind of rare vulnerability that-when offered by a justice-leader in it for the long haul and deeply responding to God's call-enables the rest of us to get quiet and ask again what it is that God requires of us. Real prophets lovingly criticize and truthfully energize. Brenda Salter McNeil takes us on hers, even as she invites us to newly understand Queen Esther's and-ultimately-our own. "This is a beautiful and courageous book about journeys. Willie James Jennings, professor, Yale Divinity School author of After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging There is no one who understands more clearly what is necessary to move white evangelicals forward beyond their racial captivity than McNeil, and there is no more important book that must find its way into the hands of students, pastors, Christian activists, and all those who understand the urgency of this moment than Becoming Brave." There is simply no one who has worked with more thoughtfulness, theological precision, and faithfulness at this vital work than Brenda Salter McNeil. Like Tom Skinner and Bill Pannell in previous generations, she defines for this generation of evangelical scholars and pastors what real racial reconciliation means on the ground. "Brenda Salter McNeil has been a giant in the work of racial reconciliation among evangelicals. Lisa Sharon Harper, founder and president, Freedom Road With Becoming Brave she returns and calls her followers to gird their courage and engage like never before, for the sake of the gospel. McNeil has led two generations of evangelical Christians into the value and practice of racial reconciliation. ![]() Part confession, part biblical reflection, part call to storm the gates, Becoming Brave declares that the Christian call to do justice cannot and shall no longer be guided, shaped, and defanged by sensibilities more loyal to white people's comfort than to God. The Reconciling Power of Women Conclusion: Seizing Our Moment of Destiny Endorsements Contents Foreword by Austin Channing Brown 1. It challenges Christians to be everyday activists who become brave enough to break the silence and work with others to dismantle systems of injustice and inequality. ![]() Becoming Brave offers a distinctly Christian framework for addressing systemic injustice. This book provides education and prophetic inspiration for every person who wants to take reconciliation seriously. Looking through the lens of the biblical narrative of Esther, McNeil challenges Christian reconcilers to recognize the particular pain in our world so they can work together to repair what is broken while maintaining a deep hope in God's ongoing work for justice. It's time for the church to go beyond individual reconciliation and "heart change" and to boldly mature in its response to racial division. McNeil calls the church to repair the old reconciliation paradigm by moving beyond individual racism to address systemic injustice, both historical and present. Provides a road map for any Christian seeking greater racial justice."- Publishers Weekly Reconciliation is not true reconciliation without justice! Brenda Salter McNeil has come to this conviction as she has led the church in pursuing reconciliation efforts over the past three decades. Foreword INDIES 2020 Book of the Year Award (BRONZE Winner for Religion) " powerful work. . . ![]()
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