Gilbreath, Edward, 1969-,

Reconciliation blues : a Black evangelical's inside view of white Christianity / [print] Edward Gilbreath. - Downers Grove, Illinois : InterVarsity Press, (c)2006. - 207 pages ; 22 cm.



Prologue: singing the reconciliation blues -- Living in two worlds -- "Evangelical" : there's just something about that name -- "Why do all the Black students sit together?" -- A prophet out of Harlem : the legacy of Tom Skinner -- The first shall be last: on being the "first Black" -- When Blacks quit evangelical institutions -- Waking up to the dream : Evangelicals and Martin Luther King, J r. -- Is Jesse Jackson an Evangelical? -- "God is not a Democrat or a Republican" -- The "other" others -- Let all creation sing -- Getting preachy -- Epilogue: do we still need racial reconciliation?



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Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Reconciliation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Evangelicalism--History.--United States
Black theology.

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