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The Color of Compromise

The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

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The Color of Compromise

By: Jemar Tisby
Narrated by: Jemar Tisby, Justin Henry - foreword
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The Color of Compromise takes listeners on a historical journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War, covering the tragedy of Jim Crow laws and the victories of the Civil Rights era, to today's Black Lives Matter movement. Author Jemar Tisby reveals the obvious - and the far more subtle - ways the American church has compromised what the Bible teaches about human dignity and equality.

Tisby uncovers the roots of sustained injustice in the American church, highlighting the cultural and institutional tables that need to be turned in order to bring about real and lasting progress between Black and White people. Through a story-driven survey of American Christianity's racial past, he exposes the concrete and chilling ways people of faith have actively worked against racial justice, as well as the deafening silence of the white evangelical majority. Tisby shows that while there has been progress in fighting racism, historically the majority of the American church has failed to speak out against this evil. This ongoing complicity is a stain upon the church, and sadly, it continues today.

Tisby does more than diagnose the problem, however. He charts a path forward with intriguing ideas that further the conversation as he challenges us to reverse these patterns and systems of complicity with bold, courageous, and immediate action. The Color of Compromise provides an accurate diagnosis for a racially divided American church and suggests creative ways to foster a more equitable and inclusive environment among God's people.

©2019 Jemar Tisby (P)2019 Zondervan
Black & African American Church & Church Leadership Church & State Civil Rights & Liberties History Racism & Discrimination Social Issues United States Equality Civil rights War
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Great!

Thanks Jemar!!!! God Bless you for your labors here. And may God use it to let His Kingdom come down with righteousness like an ever flowing stream!

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sobering, informative and transformational

This is an awesome survey of American history focusing on the African-American experience and how it has been ridden with racism. The author does an excellent job of surveying American history to present, the history of the American Protestant church and its dealings with racism and how it has affected Blacks in America. This read is sobering, informative and transformational. It is extremely eye-opening and will answer a lot of questions for Americans who wonder about the plight of African-Americans. The author not only puts spotlight on the problems, he also offers also offers effective ways in the present to deal with systemic racism in and out of the church in America.

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Mandatory Reading for ALL Christians.

This book gives an eye opening overview of the history of the American Church, the origin of some denominations, and how it both shapes and fails to shape discussions on race, oppression, justice in America today.

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Great book

Eye opening, the facts laid out has to catch your attention and make you think about the authors premise and it application. It’s undeniable.

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Courage Over Compromise

Excellent historical accounts of racial compromise in the American church. Call to action is now.

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Jemar Tisby does an outstanding job throughout.

Give each and every single word your due diligence so as to do justice to his gift to us.

Jamar and Justin Henry have all truth to speak and the very least we can do is listen.

The content will move you to want to do more than listen.

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This is a must read book!

Loved it! Jamar Tisby brings an easy to read, cogent, procession of historical facts that affirm current Policies and resistance to truth. It’s a great "how to" writing with vision far beyond the topic at hand.

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Trenchant history editorial for the US church

Thoughtful survey of American white and black Christians' experiences in various US manifestations of racism . I found that it sometimes sounds stiff in both content and recording, sometimes seems tunnel-visioned or question-begging. But it is a needed bridge to uncomfortable history and social critique for white evangelicals, built and maintained by a wise black evangelical.

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Connecting the Dots

This is an excellent book explaining Christian complicity in the long history of racism in the USA as well as the way many Christians still enable racism and slow the progress toward racial equity. For anyone of faith still clinging to the belief that systemic racism and white supremacists in power are a thing of the past, I challenge you to read this book, and apply the lessons learned.

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This book is an important historical contribution

Jemar Tisby did a great job covering the history of complicity in the American church. You will find example after example of true complicity in his book. History like this has the potential to liberate habits of complicity, if the reader is willing to let it do so.

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