As a practicing Christian, I’ve been trying over the past couple years to add more voices into my understanding of my faith, both theology and history, and this book, the companion to PBS’s recent documentary miniseries of the same title, was part of that slow ongoing project. It paired interestingly with Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise, another recent read that focused on the white Christianity’s long history of complicity with racism; Gates, however, focuses on the agency of Black Christians in articulating their faith and […]