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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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.
"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
