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Considering the news lately, I would like to recommend a fiction by Randy Alcorn for addressing the struggle with racism � Dominion, the second book in his mystery trilogy (the first is Deadline). Like his other works, Randy does a great job preparing to handle subjects of his writing. I gave a copy to a black friend and he came back saying, "I can't believe the author is not black, he describes exactly what it is like." This understanding is in the middle of a well done mystery with a number of views of Paradise thrown in.
This work will give you good cause for pausing and reflecting � on more than one level.

Kent, this is a timely thread; thanks for creating it! I've long felt that one of America's (and the world's) most pressing needs is racial reconciliation; and reconciliation (between God and mankind, and among humans with each other) is at the heart of the Christian gospel. As believers, we're called to be agents of that reconciliation; and to be that,we need to understand the roots of racial animosity and the problems of minority communities.

Group members interested in this thread might also be interested in these two threads from the Theological Discussions folder: /topic/show/... and /topic/show/... . Both have been quiet for several years now, but I believe they contain some food for thought.

A few additional books that might be worthwhile background reading for understanding current racial problems and tensions are:
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley. Written by a black Christian journalist, this was a very eye-opening book for me (and for many whites in my generation) in my younger days, and remains a landmark classic.
Black Struggle: A History of the Negro in America by Brian Fulks. Being a history major, I'm a firm believer that you can't possibly understand the present without understanding the historical background of how we got here.
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward. Written by one of the foremost historians of the American South of his generation, this reveals the fact that "Jim Crow" segregation was not a time-honored tradition of Southern life from time immemorial, but an ugly innovation of race-baiting agitators in the 1890s.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Also written by a Christian, and profoundly Christian in its message, this is obviously a very old book; but it's still valuable as a view of slavery written when it still existed, and based in part on accounts by escaped slaves of their experiences.

I just finished reading a blog post by Christian author Randy Alcorn, which is another excellent resource for serious reflection on this topic, and felt led to share the link here: /author_blog... .

Thanks, Werner for pointing us to this blog post.

In message 3 above, I linked to a blog post by Randy Alcorn (who is one of the few authors whose blog I actually follow) dealing with racial justice issues. But he's written some more equally helpful and constructive posts on this subject since (although he also blogs about other topics as well), and will probably write others. His posts also contain embedded links to a great many more helpful resources for Christian reflection. So, for convenience, I'm just going to post this link to his entire blog: /author/show... .

Kent wrote: "Considering the news lately, I would like to recommend a fiction by Randy Alcorn for addressing the struggle with racism � Dominion, the second book in his mystery trilogy (the first is Deadline). ..."

Thank you for the recommendation. Is it necessary to read the first book in the trilogy before reading the second book?

Aloong these lines, I highly recommend Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.. An excellent discussion about what's really behind the BLM and CRT movements.