Due to cities like Ferguson and Baltimore, activist movements like #BlackLivesMatter and #ICantBreathe, and tragedies like last yearâ??s massacre of nine black Christians by a white supremacist in a South Carolina church, conversations about race are once again in the national spotlight.
As a pastor whose church has moved to broaden its ethnic diversity, and as a Hispanic man whose heart breaks over systemic injustice, Iâ??m pleased to see so much attention devoted to healing some of our countryâ??s deepest wounds. Thus, I was excited to learn that Jim Wallis, the founding editor of Sojourners magazine, has weighed in with Americaâ??s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (Brazos).
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