I'm Black I'm Christian I'm Methodist

By: Rudy Rasmus - editor, Lilian C. Smith - contributor, Erin Beasley - contributor, Justin Coleman - contributor, Jevon Caldwell-Gross - contributor, Pamela R. Lightsey - contributor, F. Willis Johnson - contributor, Vance P. Ross - contributor, Rodney Lorenzo Graves - contributor, Tori C. Butler - contributor, Rudy Rasmus - contributor

Narrated by: Calvin Robinson, Kellye A. Saunders

It's uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, "I have been writing this book all my life," but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times that bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day, which give voice to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Our "life's book" is filled with sentence upon sentence of marginalization, pages of apartheid, chapters of separate and unequal. Now this season reveals volumes of violence against Blacks in America.

Ten Black women and men explore life through the lens of compelling personal religious narratives. They are people and leaders whose lives are tangible demonstrations of the power of a divine purpose and evidence of what grace really means in face of hardship, disappointment, and determination. Each of the journeys intersect because of three central elements that are the focus of this book. We're Black. We're Christians. We're Methodists. Each starts with the fact, "I'm Black," but to resolve the conflict of being Christian and Methodist means confronting aspects of White theology, White supremacy, and White racism in order to ground an oppositional experience toward domination over four centuries in America.

©2020 Abingdon Press (P)2022 eChristian

All the chapters were well written.

Every chapter had something different to share and I was glad women clergy was included.

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everything was good it was a really good read and I recommend this. book for everyone that is black and Methodist we all need a better understanding of what it really means and how we are being overlooked and misused