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Carlissa Bass
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"It must be noted, however, that Europeans did not introduce Christianity to Africans... Christian luminaries like Augustine, Tertullian, and Athanasius helped develop Trinitarian theology and defended the deity of Christ long before Western Europeans presumed to "take" Christianity to Africans." p. 37
— Jul 27, 2026 04:52PM
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Carlissa Bass
is on page 88 of 256
"It should give every citizen and Christian in America pause to consider how strongly ingrained the support for slavery in our country was... This is not to suggest that the South had a monopoly on racism, but we cannot ignore that its leaders took the step of seceding from the United States in order to protect an economic system based on the enslavement of human beings" p. 86-87
— Jul 30, 2026 12:34PM
Carlissa Bass
is on page 25 of 256
History and Scripture teach us that there can be no reconciliation without repentance. There can be no repentance without confession. And there can be no confession without truth. The Color of Compromise is about telling the truth so that reconciliation - robust, consistent, honest reconciliation - might occur across racial lines p. 15
Anticipating this book to be a slow, hard but necessary read
— Jul 20, 2026 04:22PM
Anticipating this book to be a slow, hard but necessary read
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