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Author Duncan, Lenny, author.

Title Dear church : a love letter from a black preacher to the whitest denomination in the U.S / Lenny Duncan
Published Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 158 pages)
Contents Introduction: How the hell did we get here? -- Part 1: Dismantling white supremacy is the way of the cross. Dismantling white supremacy and the power of the Gospel -- The roots are infected -- Repentance, reparations, reconciliation -- Dylann Roof and I are Lutheran -- Decolonizing the liturgy and the power of symbols -- Part 2: Grace is an ever-widening circle. The church is queer -- Toxic masculinity is killing us -- Resisting nationalism is the way of Jesus -- Part 3: The church can lead the way. Dear Church, I love you -- Stretching God's tent is frontline freedom fighting -- It's time for a revolution
Summary "Lenny Duncan is an unlikely pastor. Formerly incarcerated, formerly homeless, and formerly unchurched, he is now a black preacher in the whitest denomination in the United States: the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America [ELCA]. Shifting demographics and shrinking congregations make the headlines, but Duncan connects the church's lack of diversity to its lack of vitality. sees something else at work--drawing a direct line between the church's lack of diversity and the church's lack of vitality. Part manifesto, part confession, and all love letter, Dear Church offers a bold new vision for the future of the church."--Cover
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 20, 2019)
Subject Evangelical Lutheran Church in America -- Social aspects -- United States
SUBJECT Evangelical Lutheran Church in America fast
Subject Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Lutheran Church -- Social aspects -- United States
Evangelicalism -- Social aspects -- United States
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Social aspects
Evangelicalism -- Social aspects
Race -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1506452574
9781506452579