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Title: Grace Matters : A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South by Chris P. Rice ISBN: 0-7879-5704-6 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 23 August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Grace Matters
Comment: This is an important book about human relationships and how conditioning must be transcended to allow a new order of humanity to emerge. Chris's honesty is remarkable and refreshing. The forces against human beings coming together are big - the black/white racial issue just further highlights what most of us try to pretend isn't there. Their willingness to trust in God and something bigger than themselves because they know how important it is for the sake of humanity, is very moving and should not be missed. This is an unusual book because although the foundational faith is Christianity, the issues are human and can be appreciated by anyone interested in solving the complex issues of what it means to be a human being.
Rating: 5
Summary: The path to lasting change
Comment: Chris Rice is brutally vulnerable and honest about his attempts to achieve the goal of racial reconciliation in partnership with Spencer Perkins. And, while the goal is important, the means of achieving it takes center stage in this poignant and absorbing chronicle of life in an intentional biracial community. Chris and Spencer discover that, when it comes right down to it, the only way they can overcome their own personal hangups and self-centeredness, and achieve true reconciliation between them, is by fully accepting God's grace. As they accept God's grace, they become transformed people who are whole, healed, and capable of truly seeking the best for others. The book clearly documents the work of God in the deep, private recesses of peoples' lives. It should be read by anyone who wants to achieve lasting change in their own life and the world around them.
Rating: 5
Summary: So Honest a book!!
Comment: What a tremendously honest book. There are no shortcuts to true racial reconciliation and justice. Attempts at shortcuts usually lead to a perpetuation of racial injustice or merely a reversal of who is oppressed. Reading "Grace Matters" clearly indicates this truism. Most of the books on race relations are dogmatic about the ultimate solutions there are to racial harmonty. This book is a more honest reflection of the struggles we will have to undergo so that racial reconciliation is possible. Rice does not make himself the "hero" of this book. He freely reveals the ugly side of himself. But just as important he does not deify Spencoer Perkins - his best friend in the book who is black - or blacks in general. This is a real book about real people.
If you want to just rely on those who pretend that they know all of the answers to racism, from color-blind whites to afrocentric blacks, then this book is not for you. The answers in this book are not offered through an unrealistic idealism but through the blood, sweat and tears that happen when people of different races really start working at racial healing. So if you want to gain a little sense of the type of struggle that we are going to have to undergo to eliminate racism then go get this book as soon as you can.
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Title: More Than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel by Spencer Perkins, Chris Rice ISBN: 0830822569 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0195168917 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development by John M. Perkins ISBN: 0801071224 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson, Christian Smith ISBN: 0195147073 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today by John G., Jr. Stackhouse ISBN: 0195138074 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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