Violinknitter’s Reviews > I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity > Status Update

This book presents a profoundly different view of repentance and reconciliation than the cheap one taught & modeled to me in the white evangelical church.

And frankly, in this view, Joseph’s actions with his brothers in Genesis make *sense*, which they never did under fundiegelical teachings on repentance/forgiveness

“But White Christians have not, in large measure, grappled with the ways in which slavery has shaped the identity and cultures of White people in ways that continue to present themselves today. They have not wrestled with the moral injuriousness of slavery.”

“In the United States … reconciliation has been largely framed as a movement aimed at obliterating racial barriers between African American and White men.... [W]omen’s voices and perspectives are largely absent. The result of this exclusively male gaze is a body of literature that examines race as a singular construct, ignoring the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality.”