Shalom and Justice

Lisa Sharon Harper, co-founder and executive director of New York Faith & Justice, who spoke at TGC on July 18, referred to a ground-breaking book that should be must reading for all Christians.  The book is Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America, by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith. 

A second book, also recommended is United by Faith: The Multiracial Congregation as an Answer to the Problem of Race by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Michael O. Emerson, George Yancey, and Karen Choi Kim.