Review\n“Furr's words are not for the faint of heart. Though not intentionally provocative, they will provoke you in the greatest sense, nonetheless. His candor and conviction will challenge your assumptions, test the story you tell yourself, and challenge you to live with more attention and intention. He reminds us that faith calls us to do the difficult but necessary work of confronting privilege both in the world―and in the mirror.” 
-John Pavlovitz, author of If God is Love, Don't Be a Jerk 
“From the start, Straight White Male gets right to the heart of the problems we face when we elevate patriarchal structures. His use of scripture and stories made his deconstruction (and reconstruction) personal and empowering.” 
-Brian Anderson, co-founder and executive director, Fathering Together 
"This graceful book offers a wise pastoral path toward the intentional deconstruction of straight-white-maleness, understood by Furr as a social construction that delivers privilege to some and harm to all, and as fundamentally contrary to the Gospel proclaimed and embodied by Jesus Christ. The book is deeply enriched by generous and illuminating contributions from Roberts, Barber, Florer-Bixler, and Henderson-Espinosa. Highly recommended." 
-David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University 
“In Straight White Male Furr and contributors incisively and powerfully remind us that, just because we didn’t create the system, it doesn’t mean we don’t benefit from it. This call to straight white men to recognize and deconstruct our privilege is both urgent and desperately needed. This book is a must read!” 
-Josh Scott, lead pastor, GracePointe Church, Nashville, Tennessee 
“Straight White Male couldn't come at a better time. With words permeated with humility and honesty, Furr takes aim at the social forces plaguing American Christianity. If you are a straight white dude like me, this thoughtful book needs to be in your hands. It needs to be read and absorbed so we can do better and seek the transformation Furr powerfully articulates in these pages." 
-Billy Kilgore, writer, pastor, and stay-at-home dad ---\nAs the cultural conversation around race, gender, and sexuality has evolved, straight, white men are becoming increasingly aware of their privilege. But many may be left thinking, OK, what am I supposed to do about it? We need a way forward beyond feelings of guilt, overwhelmingness, anger, and denial. We are looking for transformative guidance that helps us be the good guys we want to be. 
Straight, white, male pastor Chris Furr offers a guide to deconstructing that privilege in Straight White Male. With an emphasis on confession and redemption, Furr invites other privileged men to reconsider the ways they live, work, believe, and interact with others. Alongside Furr's perspective, essays from contributing writers who lack various types of privilege--straight, Black man William J. Barber II, straight, white woman Melissa Florer-Bixler, queer, nonbinary latinx Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, and gay, white man Matthias Roberts--offer insights on how particular types and combinations of privilege (and the lack thereof) shape the way we move through the world. Their combined voices offer much-needed perspective through this deconstruction and provide a vision for how straight, white men can do better for ourselves, our families, and society.

Straight White Male: A Faith-Based Guide to Deconstructing Your Privilege and Living with Integrity

Politics & Social Sciences

Barber II, William J.

Furr, Chris

Florer-Bixler, Melissa

Roberts, Matthias

Che Espinoza, Roberto

Social Sciences

Westminster/John Knox Press

In the spring of 2013, seventeen people gathered at the North Carolina state legislature to protest extreme legislation passed by the General Assembly attacking health insurance, unemployment insurance, labor, and voting rights. The ministers, labor, and human rights activists began praying, singing, and chanting, and were ultimately arrested. That group grew into crowds of thousands at successive "Moral Mondays" rallies, and by summer's end nearly 1,000 people had been arrested, making this sustained moral protest one of the largest acts of civil disobedience in U.S. history. The effort grew out of seven years of organizing with more than 160 groups. Rallies continued in 2014, with a "Moral March" of 80,000 people in February. Rev. Dr. William Barber II, a pastor and president of the North Carolina Conference of the NAACP, now the largest in the South, became one of the architects of the Forward Together Moral Movement. In a new book, Forward Together, Rev. Barber tells the story of a new fusion civil rights movement, a "big tent," in which black and white, gay and straight, rich and poor, old and young, Republicans and Democrats are all welcome. Rev. Barber's sermons/speeches at the protests, many of them collected in Forward Together, became the inspiration and rallying cry for a new civil rights movement. North Carolina today is at the epicenter of the political and spiritual crisis affecting 21st-century America. What happens here, says Barber, can shift the center of gravity in the American political discourse. Similar movements are now growing in states around the country. Forward Together captures the essence of what it means to preach in the public square.

Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation

History

Zelter, Barbara

Americas

Chalice Press

Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion

2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists - MulticulturalJonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound" also perpetuated racial injustice and white supremacy in the name of Jesus. His Christianity, he discovered, was the religion of the slaveholder.Just as Reconstruction after the Civil War worked to repair a desperately broken society, our compromised Christianity requires a spiritual reconstruction that undoes the injustices of the past. Wilson-Hartgrove traces his journey from the religion of the slaveholder to the Christianity of Christ. Reconstructing the gospel requires facing the pain of the past and present, from racial blindness to systemic abuses of power. Grappling seriously with troubling history and theology, Wilson-Hartgrove recovers the subversiveness of the gospel that sustained the church through centuries of slavery and oppression, from the civil rights era to the Black Lives Matter movement and beyond.When the gospel is reconstructed, freedom rings for both individuals and society as a whole. Discover how Jesus continues to save us from ourselves and each other, to repair the breach and heal our land.

Wilson-Hartgrove, Jonathan

White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy

When most Americans think of poverty, they imagine Black faces. As a teenager, Reverend William J. Barber II recalls seeing Black mothers interviewed on television whenever there was a story on food stamps or unemployment; poverty, then as now, was depicted as an essentially Black problem. In a work that promises to have lasting repercussions, Barber--now a leading advocate for the rights of our nation's poor and the "closest person we have to Dr. King" (Cornel West)--addresses white poverty as a hugely neglected subject that might just be the key to mitigating racism and bringing together the tens of millions working-class and impoverished whites with low-income Blacks. Recognizing that angry social media posts have replaced food, education, and housing as a "salve" for the white poor, Barber contends that the millions of America's lowest-income earners have much in common, and together with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, provides one of the most sympathetic and visionary approaches to endemic poverty in decades.

Liveright

Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing

Theoharis, Liz

Sociology

Dreamscape Media

Rev. William Barber is the architect and leader of the Moral Mondays movement, which arose in 2013 in opposition to Republican policies in North Carolina that have restricted voting rights and blocked health care expansion. The movement has since expanded to cities across the country, and with the election of Donald Trump, Rev. Barber's message is more necessary than ever. Drawing from the history of social movements in the US, especially the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign, Rev. Barber and the contributors to this volume speak to the most pressing issues of our time, including Black Lives Matter, the fight for a $15 minimum wage, the struggle to protect voting rights, the march for women's rights, and the movement to overcome poverty and unite the dispossessed across all dividing lines. Grounded in the fundamental biblical theme of poor and oppressed people taking action together, the book suggests ways to effectively build a fusion movement to make America fa ir and just for everyon

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