Description: What a gift to those of us who are called to lead the contemporary church at this hour! --William H. Willimon. Andrew M. Manis recruited clergy from a broad spectrum of interracial, interreligious, and interdenominational communities of faith in Macon, Georgia, to address their congregations on the perennially controversial theme of racial reconciliation. Acknowledging the truism that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning remains the most segregated hour of the week, Manis argues that neither White nor Black congregations are familiar with what the other hears about race on the other side of the color line. Fourteen clergy bring their scriptural interpretations to bear on the longstanding problem of White supremacy in American life and culture. In addition, two minister-historians, a Black and a White Baptist, introduce these sermons and analyze their crucial theological and ethical challenges.
