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For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureHistory Speaks the Spirit of Justice / Jemar TisbyHistory reveals a lot of things about human nature: our innate drive towards progress, discovery, relationship, community. Often motivated by a drive to feel safe and flourish. But despite this instinct, history also shows that we’re prone to inflicting and being complicit to grave and violent injustices. We fail, regularly, at living well with our neighbors.In his new book, The Spirit of Justice, Jemar Tisby opens the centuries long history of resistance to racism in the United States through the mode of story, and with the lens of the Spirit moving for justice. He asks, wh...2024-10-2346 min
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & CultureJemar Tisby / Holistic and Historical Racial Justice: Awareness, Relationships, CommitmentJemar Tisby, author of the NYT bestseller The Color of Compromise, explains the complicity and compromise of American Christians; the narrative war that confederate monuments wage (and how they were erected much later than you might think); the ugly theological justifications of racism and the shameful history of Christian white supremacy; the fraught project of selectively naming heroes and villains and then memorializing them; and the practical problem of how to go forward rightly from this moment of increased attention to racial injustice.Get Jemar Tisby's book! The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s...2022-02-1220 min