{"product_id":"reconstructing-the-gospel-finding-freedom-from-slaveholder-religion-9780830847976","title":"Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion","description":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - Multicultural \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, \"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound\" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II is a Protestant minister and political leader in North Carolina. He is a member of the national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the chair of their Legislative Political Action Committee. Barber has served as pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), in Goldsboro, North Carolina since 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (MDiv, Duke Divinity School) is a writer, speaker, and activist. He and his wife, Leah, founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality where the formerly homeless are welcomed into a community that eats, prays, and shares life together. Jonathan directs the School for Conversion, a nonprofit that pursues beloved community with kids in the neighborhood, through classes in North Carolina prisons, and in community-based education around the country. Jonathan is also an associate minister at the historically black St. John's Missionary Baptist Church. Jonathan is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eBecoming the Answer to Our Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e, a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCommon Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eStrangers at My Door\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Stability\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Monasticism\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the coauthor, with Rev. Dr. William Barber II, of \u003ci\u003eThe Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"IVP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557381837074,"sku":"9780830847976","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52d3ba68-e484-4d95-8989-396cd946c0d3.jpg?v=1731780936","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reconstructing-the-gospel-finding-freedom-from-slaveholder-religion-9780830847976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}