Binding: Hardcover
Description: A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless anti - Black world Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Dant Stewart so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder. Robert Jones Jr. New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets In Shoutin in the Fire Dant Stewart gives breathtaking language to his reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy both the kind that hangs over our country and the kind that is internalized on a molecular level. Stewart uses his personal experiences as a vehicle to reclaim and reimagine spiritual virtues like rage resilience and remembrance and explores how these virtues might function as a work of love against an unjust unloving world. In 2016, Stewart was a rising leader at the predominantly white evangelical church he and his family were attending in Augusta Georgia. Like many young church leaders Stewart was thrilled at the prospect of growing his voice and influence within the community and he was excited to break barriers as the church's first Black preacher. But when Donald Trump began his campaign so began the unearthing. Stewart started overhearing talk in the pews comments ranging from microaggressions to outright hostility toward Black Americans. As this violence began to reveal itself en masse Stewart quickly found himself isolated amid a people unraveled; this community of faith became the place where he and his family now found themselves most alone. This set Stewart on a journey first out of the white church and then into a liberating pursuit of faith by looking to the wisdom of the saints that have come before including James H. Cone James Baldwin and Toni Morrison and by heeding the paradoxical humility of Jesus himself. This sharply observed journey is an intimate meditation on coming of age in a time of terror. Stewart reveals the profound faith he discovered even after experiencing the violence of the American church: a faith that loves Blackness; speaks truth to pain and trauma; and pursues a truer realer kind of love than the kind we re taught a love that sets us free.
Title: Shoutin In The Fire An American Epistle
Author(s): Stewart Dante
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593239629
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
Category: Social Discrimination & Inequality