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Woke Church: An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” –Frederick Douglass, 1845 The prophets of old were not easy to listen to because they did not flatter.  They did not cajole. They spoke hard words that often chafed and unsettled their listeners. Like the Old Testament prophets, and more recent prophetic voices like Frederick...

meeting pressing needs as a core Christian commitment; not a peripheral one. We do not substitute proclaiming for action; and we don’t proclaim and neglect action. We proclaim and engage in activism that flows from the gospel. To apply this we must be awakened to the reality of implicit and explicit racism and injustice in our society. Until then, our prophetic voice on these matters will be anemic and silent. Being woke is to be aware. Being woke