Hear the call to overcome today's conservative rhetoric of hate and bring virtue back to Christian living...

While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrible acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly hear God's message of peace and love.

This book attempts to show ways in which, through our highly privatized theologies and personal spiritualities, we American Christians have played a major role in building and securing structures of injustice in American life. Rising tides of white supremacy, threats to women's reproductive freedoms and to basic human rights for gender and sexual minorities, the widening divide between rich and poor, and increasing natural disasters and the extinction of Earth's species all point to a world crying out for God's wisdom.

To move forward as followers of Jesus, we must first call out these ingrained cultural attitudes for what they are-the seven deadly sins of white Christian nationalism. We must commit ourselves to building a more perfect union in small personal ways and in large public acknowledgment of what the culture of white Christian nationalism is doing to our country and world.

Hear the call to overcome today's conservative rhetoric of hate and bring virtue back to Christian living...

Bewildered by other Christians' violent and hateful actions? You are not alone and you are not powerless.

Since when did power, profit, and politics replace faith, hope, and love as Christianity's motto?

About the Author

Carter Heyward is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. In 1974, she was one of the Philadelphia Eleven, eleven women whose ordinations eventually paved the way for the recognition of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in 1976. Heyward is the author of some eleven books and has edited / contributed to a further three. Her most recent books are Tears of Christopena: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding and SheFlies On: A White Christian Debutante Wakes Up. She lives the North Carolina mountains south of Asheville.

Book Information
ISBN 9781538167892
Author Carter Heyward
Format Hardback
Page Count 290
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 535g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 161mm * 22mm