Recollecting America’s Original Sin
A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace
Recollecting America’s Original Sin
A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace
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Paperback / softback
£15.99
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814665084
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 14/05/2022
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace journeys into anti-black 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 will travel the race-and-grace journey in these pages.
Contents
Preface ix
First Week
On the Threshold of a Journey 1
Moment 1: Reckoning 1
Moment 2: “When You Pray, Move Your Feet” 5
Moment 3: Mr. Jefferson’s Shadow 10
Moment 4: Teach Your Children Well 17
Moment 5: Ties That Bind 20
Moment 6: Origins and Original Sin 24
Moment 7: It’s Not Just Black and White 28
Getting My Bearings 30
Second Week
Shackled Past and Present in Louisiana 33
Moment 1: Sold Down the River 34
Moment 2: The Past Is Present in New Orleans 41
Moment 3: Raising Cane 49
Moment 4: Raising Cain 55
Moment 5: New Orleans Saints 60
Moment 6: Black and Catholic 66
Moment 7: The Lower Ninth Ward 69
Unshackling from the Past 75
Third Week
A Deep South Revolution 77
Moment 1: Strange Fruit 78
Moment 2: Feet and Faith in Montgomery 84
Moment 3: “You Do It to Me” 89
Moment 4: Proud Selma 95
Moment 5: “What Mean These Stones?” 103
Moment 6: Mighty Morehouse 107
Moment 7: 1968 112
Turning North 116
Fourth Week
Just Resistance 118
Moment 1: The Cleveland-Glenville Shoot-Out 120
Moment 2: Northern White Resistance and the Lost Cause 127
Moment 3: Counting Beads of Hope 133
Moment 4: Resisting Segregation—Now 137
Moment 5: Resisting Segregation—Then 143
Moment 6: Just Reckonings 147
Moment 7: On That Day 150
Selected Bibliography 153
Preface ix
First Week
On the Threshold of a Journey 1
Moment 1: Reckoning 1
Moment 2: “When You Pray, Move Your Feet” 5
Moment 3: Mr. Jefferson’s Shadow 10
Moment 4: Teach Your Children Well 17
Moment 5: Ties That Bind 20
Moment 6: Origins and Original Sin 24
Moment 7: It’s Not Just Black and White 28
Getting My Bearings 30
Second Week
Shackled Past and Present in Louisiana 33
Moment 1: Sold Down the River 34
Moment 2: The Past Is Present in New Orleans 41
Moment 3: Raising Cane 49
Moment 4: Raising Cain 55
Moment 5: New Orleans Saints 60
Moment 6: Black and Catholic 66
Moment 7: The Lower Ninth Ward 69
Unshackling from the Past 75
Third Week
A Deep South Revolution 77
Moment 1: Strange Fruit 78
Moment 2: Feet and Faith in Montgomery 84
Moment 3: “You Do It to Me” 89
Moment 4: Proud Selma 95
Moment 5: “What Mean These Stones?” 103
Moment 6: Mighty Morehouse 107
Moment 7: 1968 112
Turning North 116
Fourth Week
Just Resistance 118
Moment 1: The Cleveland-Glenville Shoot-Out 120
Moment 2: Northern White Resistance and the Lost Cause 127
Moment 3: Counting Beads of Hope 133
Moment 4: Resisting Segregation—Now 137
Moment 5: Resisting Segregation—Then 143
Moment 6: Just Reckonings 147
Moment 7: On That Day 150
Selected Bibliography 153
"Through recollecting threads of her story with stories of slavery and institutionalized racism in this country, Benders offers theological insights on the relationship between original sin and individual sin as well as the interdependence of liberation."
Erin Brigham, University of San Francisco
"In Recollecting America's Original Sin, Benders invites the reader to travel alongside her in communitas in an admirable quest to 'live justice authentically and inclusively.' It is a personal and deeply moving account of pilgrimage as a powerful means of reckoning as America confronts a long history of racial injustice, as embodied prayer, and-importantly-as a way to begin to heal."
Kathryn R. Barush, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University "Benders's new book is a disruption to archaic, upside-down systems that continue to benefit some but not all."
Christian Century
"Written beautifully, Benders uses marvelous metaphors to nail the message. She combines her own experience and growth with the wisdom of Scripture."
Catholic Books Review
