{"product_id":"reconstructing-the-gospel-finding-freedom-from-slaveholder-religion-paperback","title":"Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWilliam J. II Barber\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2018 \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist--Multicultural\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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 both for individuals and for 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (MDiv, Duke Divinity School) is a writer, preacher, and moral activist. He and his wife, Leah, founded the Rutba House, a house of hospitality in Durham, North Carolina. Jonathan directs the School for Conversion, a popular education center in Durham committed to \"making surprising friendships possible,\" and is an associate minister at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church.Jonathan is the author or coauthor of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eReconstructing theGospel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Third Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStrangers at My Door\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCommon Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Awakening of Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of Stability\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Monasticism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBecoming the Answer to Our Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47415117250738,"sku":"9780830847976","price":25.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/Yu9PZsmS1s9780830847976.webp?v=1783494697","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/reconstructing-the-gospel-finding-freedom-from-slaveholder-religion-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}