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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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£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

Alison Mearns Benders

Alison M. Benders, Emerita, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, is the author of the award-winning Just Prayer: A Book of Hours for Peacemakers and Justice Seekers, and Recollecting America's Original Sin, published by Liturgical Press.

"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