The Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (audio)
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Overview
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook’s direct narration of a book’s text, The Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the “tranquilizing drug of gradualism,” King emphasized the fierce urgency of now, the need to resist the status quo and take immediate action.
King’s call to action, first issued over fifty years ago, is relevant for the church in America todayThe Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures, Jemar Tisby takes us back to the root of this injustice in the American church, highlighting the cultural and institutional tables we have to flip in order to bring about progress between black and white people.
Tisby provides a unique survey of American Christianity’s racial past, revealing the concrete and chilling ways people of faith have worked against racial justice. Understanding our racial history sets the stage for solutions, but until we understand the depth of the malady we won’t fully embrace the aggressive treatment it requires. Given the centuries of Christian compromise with bigotry, believers today must be prepared to tear down old structures and build up new ones. These audio lectures provide an in-depth diagnosis for a racially divided American church and suggests ways to foster a more equitable and inclusive environment among God’s people.
The Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures reveals the chilling connection between the church and racism throughout American history. In 11 lessons, Jemar Tisby explore ways Christians have reinforced theories of racial superiority and inferiority, and outlines the kind of bold action needed to forge a future of equity and justice.
- Title: The Color of Compromise: Audio Lectures: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (audio)
- Author: Jemar Tisby
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Audio
- Subjects: Religion › Christian Living--Social Issues; Religion › Christian Church--History; Religion › Christianity--History; Religion › Christianity--Holidays see headings under Holidays; Religion › Christianity--Holy Spirit see Christian Theology--Pneumatology
- ISBNs: 9780310102236, 0310102235, 025986102234, 9780310114840, 9780310114833, 9780310102212, 9780310113607, 9780310102205, 9780310597308, 9780310597278, 0310114845, 0310114837, 0310102219, 0310113601, 0310102200, 0310597307, 0310597277
- Resource ID: LLS:9780310102236
- Resource Type: Media
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T21:15:15Z
Jemar Tisby (BA, University of Notre Dame; MDiv, Reformed Theological Seminary) is CEO of The Witness, Inc., an organization dedicated to Black uplift. He is also cohost of the Pass the Mic podcast and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Color of Compromise. He has spoken nationwide at conferences, and his writing has been featured by the Washington Post, CNN, and The Atlantic. Jemar is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Mississippi studying race, religion, and social movements in the twentieth century.