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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...

Live in harmony with one another” (Rom. 12:15–16). This admonition was written to a diverse church. A concern for others is a vital expression of the gospel. Jason Meyer explains: The church is called to put the light of Christ in its prominent place on the nightstand of the nation.… Was racial hatred between Jew and Gentile hard in the first century? Yes. Was it too hard for the gospel? No.… What other religion has a God who cried and bled for his enemies? How, then, can Christians settle for knowing
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