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Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Today, racial wounds from three hundred years of slavery and a history of Jim Crow laws continue to impact the church in America. Martin Luther King Jr. captured this reality when he said: “The most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday.” Equipped with the gospel, the evangelical church should be the catalyst for reconciliation, yet it continues to cultivate immense...

Hip-hop has done more for racial relations than most cultural icons.… This music didn’t only influence kids from urban areas, it influenced people all around the world.… If you look at clubs and how integrated they have become—before people partied in separate clubs. There were hip-hop clubs and there were techno clubs. And now people party together and once you have people partying, dancing, and singing along to the same music, then conversations naturally happen after that. And within conversations,
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