“White People Talking to White People About Racism, A Reading of Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair by Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson”
A podcast series on a prophetic book
Mid-May through September
Pastors, leaders, scholars will respond to each chapter.
Each chapter response will be followed with a guided call to prayer, repentance, and action!
As May 25 approaches, the date of George Floyd's murder, the spiritual and social transformation of the church requires a tangible, substantial and generous way to discuss, learn, and discern new, redeemed action. The Invitation seeks to foster such a conversation with a four-month series of reading and responding to Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair.
A set of new books have become prophetic gifts to the church during this last year’s crisis: How to Fight Racism, Jamar Tisby; After Whiteness, Willie James Jennings; Reading While Black, Esau McCaulley; and Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin DuMez. The Invitation is eager to promote reading and discussion of Reparations by Kwon and Thompson because we believe it is also a book that will be of vital importance for what will become of the American church once the pandemic is over.
What you can do: invite your whole church…form a small group to meet in person or with friends online…read along by yourself….read, discuss, pray, and act while engaging this podcast series. Be a part of shifting a culture to normalize a Christian, Gospel-inspired hopeful discernment about societal transformation!
Focus question for our reading and response: as we read Reparations, we will confront many layers of resistance both in ourselves, our immediate communities, as well as our state and national conversations. The Invitation will consistently encourage listeners and participants to return to the focus question of kenosis in the language of Philippians 2: how can my response to Reparations allow me to cultivate the like-minded consciousness of Jesus who emptied and humbled himself and became obedient to death on a cross?
Please read this book in community. Discuss. Wrestle. Pray
Let’s shift our culture.
Let’s believe in the ripple effects of reading and discussion.
Let’s help our churches understand the relationship between inner, contemplative formation and outward, racial justice.