Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, & a New Way Forward

"Deserving of the widest possible readership. Midwest Book Review "This provocative book will encourage conversations about one of American Christianity's most challenging issues. --Publishers Weekly 
Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn t bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior.
 That false image of God is dead, right? Wrong, argue the authors of Plantation Jesus, an authoritative new book on one of the most urgent issues of our day.
 Through their shared passion for Jesus Christ and with an unblinking look at history, church, and pop culture, authors Skot Welch and Rick Wilson detail the manifold ways that racism damages the church's witness. Together Welch and Wilson take on common responses by white Christians to racial injustice, such as I never owned a slave, I don t see color; only people, and We just need to get over it and move on. Together they call out the church's denials and dodges and evasions of race, and they invite readers to encounter the Christ of the disenfranchised.
 With practical resources and Spirit-filled stories, Plantation Jesus nudges readers to learn the history, acknowledge the injury, and face the truth. Only then can the church lead the way toward true reconciliation. Only then can the legacy of Plantation Jesus be replaced with the true way of Jesus Christ.

Plantation Jesus: Race, Faith, and a New Way Forward

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilson, Rick

Welch, Skot

Sociology

Herald Press

Not long ago, most white American Christians believed that Jesus blessed slavery. God wasn't bothered by Jim Crow. Baby Jesus had white skin. Meet Plantation Jesus: a god who is comfortable with bigotry, and an idol that distorts the message of the real Savior. That false image of God is dead, right? Wrong, argue the authors of Plantation Jesus, an authoritative new book on one of the most urgent issues of our day. Through their shared passion for Jesus Christ and with an unblinking look at history, church, and pop culture, authors Skot Welch and Rick Wilson detail the manifold ways that racism damages the church's witness. Together Welch and Wilson take on common responses by white Christians to racial injustice, such as "I never owned a slave," "I don't see color; only people," and "We just need to get over it and move on." Together they call out the church's denials and dodges and evasions of race, and they invite readers to encounter the Christ of the disenfranchised.With practical resources and Spirit-filled stories, Plantation Jesus nudges readers to learn the history, acknowledge the injury, and face the truth. Only then can the church lead the way toward true reconciliation. Only then can the legacy of Plantation Jesus be replaced with the true way of Jesus Christ.

Herald Press (VA)

We're all born curious, but curiosity is an easy quality to lose. It's too easy in the midst of a busy life to settle into the comfortable and familiar. To become trapped in our own routines, our own culture. Yet when we look outside, we see that the world is filled with a rich mosaic of cultures and new perspectives. 101 Ways to Enjoy the Mosaic is a guide to taking the first steps out of the rut and beginning to sample new customs, including foods, festivals and other fun, that we might miss sometimes because we think we aren't invited to attend! Having cultural competence does not have to mean the ability to speak five languages fluently or travel the world over. Cultural competence is readily available to every one of us because it is really nothing more than learning more about our neighbors. Gaining cultural competence is part of a practice of living more deliberately and peacefully with all of our neighbors in a continually more globalized world.101 Ways to Enjoy the Mosaic has been created from Skot Welch's thirty-year experience in international business, diversity and inclusion consulting. He's pioneered diversity and inclusion initiatives for Fortune 500 firms in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America, and is the founder and principal of a successful innovation-through inclusion firm, Global Bridgebuilders.

101 Ways to Enjoy the Mosaic: Creating a Diverse Community Right in Your Own Backyard (1)

Self-Help

Motivational

Water Street Press

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