PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Why do people have a common faith but different political loyalties? How does the Christian faith shape how we should vote and participate in the political process? In Left, Right, and Christ, authors D.C. Innes (on the right) and Lisa Sharon Harper (on the left) discuss and explore how the Christian faith speaks directly to American politics today, but with different understanding and applications. Addressing questions like: * Does God care about politics? Should we? * Is it the government's role to take care of the sick? * Do legalized abortions increase the number of abortions? * Should we support people's freedom to choose a definition of marriage, even if we disagree with their choice? * Does a free country mean that everyone is free to come here? * Is the earth so fragile that the government should step in to protect it? Harper and Innes craft thought provoking chapters on each issue that will have America talking for a long time. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Lisa Sharon Harper is Director of Mobilizing at Sojourners. An award winning playwright, Ms. Harper has written for The National Civic Review, God's Politics blog, The Huffington Post, Urban Faith, Prism, and Slant33 . She speaks annually to thousands of people on tax reform, comprehensive immigration reform, health care reform, poverty, racial justice, and transformational civic engagement. D.C. Innes is Associate Professor of Politics, The King's College, New York City. A prolific scholar, he has published articles and columns in Interpretation, Worldmag.com, The Washington Times, in Piety and Humanity, and in Civil Religion in Political Thought. He is an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and on the Board of Directors, for Evangelical Political Scholars Association

Left, Right And Christ

Lisa Sharon Harper

D.C. Innes

Russell Media

"Extraordinary. . . . Let this story of family, race, and resistance create anger in your spirit and ultimately inspire your heart to join the work to heal our nation and eventually our world."--Otis Moss III (from the foreword)\nDrawing on her lifelong journey to know her family's history, leading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.\nHarper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Fortune, the name of Harper's first nonindigenous ancestor born on American soil, bore the brunt of the nation's first race, gender, and citizenship laws. As Harper traces her family's story through succeeding generations, she shows how American ideas, customs, and laws robbed her ancestors--and the ancestors of so many others--of their humanity and flourishing.\nFortune helps readers understand how America was built upon systems and structures that blessed some and cursed others, allowing Americans of European descent to benefit from the colonization, genocide, enslavement, rape, and exploitation of people of color. As Harper lights a path through national and religious history, she clarifies exactly how and when the world broke and shows the way to redemption for us all. The book culminates with a powerful and compelling vision of truth telling, reparation, and forgiveness that leads to Beloved Community. It includes a foreword by Otis Moss III, illustrations, and a glossy eight-page black-and-white insert featuring photos of Harper's family.\nFrom the Back Cover\n"An epic and true story of race, religion, history, and identity"\nLeading Christian activist Lisa Sharon Harper has spent three decades exploring ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews, and genealogy. Drawing on that experience, Fortune recovers the beauty of her heritage, exposes the brokenness that race has wrought in America, and casts a vision for collective repair.\n"Nothing less than an epic and true story of race, religion, history, and identity." 
--Jemar Tisby, New York Times bestselling author of The Color of Compromise and How to Fight Racism\n"Harper is one of our nation's most critical voices on the issues of race, gender, faith, and justice." 
--Kirsten Powers, New York Times bestselling author, CNN senior political analyst, and USA Today columnist\n"Brilliant." 
--Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president, Repairers of the Breach; author of We Are Called to Be a Movement\n"Lisa tells the whole truth of our historical existence as a nation built upon racist structures, ideologies, and laws." 
--Jen Hatmaker, New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and host of the For the Love podcast\n"Harper has the rare gift of speaking honestly in ways that remind you of Tom Skinner, and of speaking intimately in ways that remind you of Maya Angelou." 
--Willie James Jennings, professor, Yale Divinity School\n"Harper is a masterful storyteller." 
--Ruby Sales, founder of the Spirithouse Project, long distance runner for justice, social critic, popular educator, and Black folk theologian\n"A fantastic read and an important work in America's search for her authentic self." 
--Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans; founder of E Pluribus Unum

Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World--and How to Repair It All

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Brazos Press

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