Skip to main content

Recollecting America's Original Sin A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace

$19.95
$14.96 - $17.55
(No reviews yet) Write a Review
Bulk Pricing:
Buy in bulk and save
paperback:
true
min:
$14.96
title:
Recollecting America's Original Sin
subtitle:
A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace
pricing:
$14.96 - $17.55
Adding to cart… The item has been added

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.

Product Preview

Format: Paperback book
Product code: LP6508
Dimensions: 5½" x 8½"
Length: 176 pages
Publisher:
Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814665084
1-2 copies $17.55 each
3-9 copies $16.75 each
10-49 copies $15.96 each
50-99 copies $15.56 each
100+ copies $14.96 each
Written by Alison M. Benders

Praise

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

Author

Alison M. Benders is vice president for mission and ministry at Santa Clara University. She is the author of the award-winning Just Prayer: A Book of Hours for Peacemakers and Justice Seekers, published by Liturgical Press.