Alison Mearns Benders

Recollecting America's Original Sin Alison Mearns Benders

Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace journeys into antiblack racism throughout US history through a Christian spirituality lens. The reflections are fashioned as a spiritual pilgrimage that integrates listening, reflecting, and daily living. It recollects the nation's freedom struggles around race, our original sin, which constrains and stains us now as ever. Walking a holy road of past, present, and future meaning, the chapters interlace historical moments and places into a web of provocative concerns. Anyone desiring to respond faithfully to the justice reckonings now seizing our country travel the race-and-grace journey in these pages.