Advancing the Conversation on Racism and Racial Reconciliation - Softcover

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This easy-to-read primer provides a theological framework to advance the conversation on racism, racial healing, and racial reconciliation. It will challenge your thinking and approach to the Good News of Jesus Christ. It is the hope that this primer will spark within you a desire to become a more informed and intentional proponent of racial justice, racial healing, and racial reconciliation.

This primer addresses topics such as the following in challenging racism:

-The Greatest Commandment to Love

-The Weightier Matter of Justice

-The Liberation of the "Least of These"

-The Missional Narrative of Scripture

-The Trinity

-Creation

-Jesus' Ministry

-Kingdom Vision

Dr. Derrick L. Jackson is the Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Gallatin, Tennessee. He is also the Executive Director of the Sunday School Publishing Board of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Dr. Jackson has been named one of the most influential persons of Sumner County, Tennessee.

He is married to Laurie Lanakila Smith-Jackson, and he is the father of Jeffery and Joshua, and the proud grandfather of Sanai Marie and Jeffery II. His life's motto is based upon the words of an inspirational song composed in the 1930s by Alma Bazel Androzzo and sung by Mahalia Jackson, which go, "If I can help someone as I pass along...then my living will not be in vain."

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