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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 witness. Why won't this problem just go away? Because it is a spiritual battle. In response, we must employ spiritual weapons--prayer, repentance, forgiveness. In this book Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson provide a model of racial reconciliation, social justice, and spiritual healing that creates both individual and communal transformation. Listen to 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 crosscultural partnerships

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Brenda Salter McNeil is a dynamic speaker, an author, and a trailblazer with over thirty years of experience in the ministry of racial, ethnic, and gender reconciliation. She is an associate professor of reconciliation studies in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University and is also the author of Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 and A Credible Witness. Brenda Salter McNeil is a dynamic speaker, an author, and a trailblazer with over thirty years of experience in the ministry of racial, ethnic, and gender reconciliation. She is an associate professor of reconciliation studies in the School of Theology at Seattle Pacific University and is also the author of Roadmap to Reconciliation 2.0 and A Credible Witness. Rick Richardson is director of the Billy Graham Center Institute and its Church Evangelism Initiative, and professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College Graduate School. He previously served as evangelism and discipleship pastor at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois, and was the evangelism champion who helped launch Willow Creek Community Church's first multisite campus. His books include Reimagining Evangelism and Evangelism Outside the Box. John M. Perkins is a sharecropper's son who grew up in New Hebron, Mississippi, amidst dire poverty. Fleeing to California at the age of seventeen after his older brother's murder at the hands of a town marshal, he vowed never to return. After converting to Christianity in 1960, however, he returned to Mendenhall, Mississippi, to share the Gospel of Christ. While in Mississippi, his outspoken nature and support and leadership in civil-rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, beatings, and imprisonment. He was also arrested in 2005 while protesting in Washington, DC, against the government defunding of programs aiding the poor. In Mendenhall, he and his wife founded Voice of Calvary Ministries. In 1982 the Perkins returned to California and lived in Pasadena, where they founded Harambee Christian Family Center in a neighborhood that had one of the highest day-time crime rates in California. The following year, he and his wife, along with a few friends and major supporters, established the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development, Inc. John M. Perkins is a sharecropper's son who grew up in New Hebron, Mississippi, amidst dire poverty. Fleeing to California at the age of seventeen after his older brother's murder at the hands of a town marshal, he vowed never to return. After converting to Christianity in 1960, however, he returned to Mendenhall, Mississippi, to share the Gospel of Christ. While in Mississippi, his outspoken nature and support and leadership in civil-rights demonstrations resulted in repeated harassment, beatings, and imprisonment. He was also arrested in 2005 while protesting in Washington, DC, against the government defunding of programs aiding the poor. In Mendenhall, he and his wife founded Voice of Calvary Ministries. In 1982 the Perkins returned to California and lived in Pasadena, where they founded Harambee Christian Family Center in a neighborhood that had one of the highest day-time crime rates in California. The following year, he and his wife, along with a few friends and major supporters, established the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development, Inc.

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