Recollecting America's Original Sin

Download or read book Recollecting America's Original Sin written by Alison Mearns Benders and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace journeys into anti-black racism throughout US history through a Christian spirituality lens. The reflections are fashioned as a spiritual pilgrimage that integrates listening, reflecting, and daily living. It recollects the nation’s freedom struggles around race, our original sin, which constrains and stains us now as ever. Walking a holy road of past, present, and future meaning, the chapters interlace historical moments and places into a web of provocative concerns. Anyone desiring to respond faithfully to the justice reckonings now seizing our country will travel the race-and-grace journey in these pages.