Regrettably, the book ends with the passive notion that no matter how much we strive to bring about racial reconciliation, we must trust God to bring about change. Gilbreath now believes that he can no longer walk away from conversations about race and his own racial identity in a mostly white evangelical church. Skinner, an evangelical Christian convert who had once been a gang leader in Harlem, helped Gilbreath see how he could reconcile his evangelical identity with the church's dysfunctional approaches to race and social justice. His own life changed when he read Tom Skinner's 1968 autobiography, Black and Free Part memoir and part history of the struggle, Gilbreath chronicles his own faltering attempts as a young man to deal with this issue.
, offers a poignant and often humorous look at the state of racial reconciliation within evangelical Christianity specifically. Gilbreath, an editor-at-large for Christianity Today Some also worry that the church-which should be leading efforts in racial reconciliation-is one of the worst offenders in fostering racial division. Despite political strides toward racial reconciliation since 1964, many blacks feel that nothing has really changed since Jim Crow days.
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