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Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pastor Bryan Loritts dives deep into what it's like to be a person of color in predominantly white evangelical spaces today and where we can go from here. God boldly proclaims throughout the book of Acts that there is no "ethnic home team" when it comes to Christianity. But the minority experience in America today--and throughout history--too often tells a different story. As Loritts writes,...

hermeneutics professor will tell you we bring so much more than our Greek and Hebrew analytics to the text; we also bring our ethnicity (and other lenses such as gender, class, and culture). As a black man, I pause when I see that Jesus was taken to Africa as a baby for refuge (Matthew 2:13–18). My blackness will not allow me to gloss over the Ethiopian man whom Philip cozies up to in Acts 8:26–39, or the fact that Moses, the legendary liberator and lawgiver, marries a black woman (Exodus 2:21).
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