The Color of Compromise

The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby, Lecrae Moore - introduction

Narrated by: Jemar Tisby

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response.

The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. Equal parts painful and inspirational, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain racist ideas and practices. You will be guided in thinking through concrete solutions for improved race relations and a racially inclusive church.

The Color of Compromise:

• Takes you on a historical, sociological, and religious journey: from America's early colonial days through slavery and the Civil War
• Covers the tragedy of Jim Crow laws, the victories of the Civil Rights era, and the strides of today's Black Lives Matter movement
• Reveals the cultural and institutional tables we have to flip in order to bring about meaningful integration
• Charts a path forward to replace established patterns and systems of complicity with bold, courageous, immediate action
• Is a perfect book for pastors and other faith leaders, students, non-students, book clubs, small group studies, history lovers, and all lifelong learners

The Color of Compromise is not a call to shame or a platform to blame white evangelical Christians. It is a call from a place of love and desire to fight for a more racially unified church that no longer compromises what the Bible teaches about human dignity and equality. A call that challenges black and white Christians alike to standup now and begin implementing the concrete ways Tisby outlines, all for a more equitable and inclusive environment among God's people. Starting today.

sobering, informative and transformational

This is an awesome survey of American history focusing on the African-American experience and how it has been ridden with racism. The author does an excellent job of surveying American history to present, the history of the American Protestant church and its dealings with racism and how it has affected Blacks in America. This read is sobering, informative and transformational. It is extremely eye-opening and will answer a lot of questions for Americans who wonder about the plight of African-Americans. The author not only puts spotlight on the problems, he also offers also offers effective ways in the present to deal with systemic racism in and out of the church in America.

eye opening !

How can we look at race and our faith, unless we are informed? This book is full of insight, history, faith, and compassion.

Connecting the Dots

This is an excellent book explaining Christian complicity in the long history of racism in the USA as well as the way many Christians still enable racism and slow the progress toward racial equity. For anyone of faith still clinging to the belief that systemic racism and white supremacists in power are a thing of the past, I challenge you to read this book, and apply the lessons learned.

Great!

Thanks Jemar!!!! God Bless you for your labors here. And may God use it to let His Kingdom come down with righteousness like an ever flowing stream!

This is a must read book!

Loved it! Jamar Tisby brings an easy to read, cogent, procession of historical facts that affirm current Policies and resistance to truth. It’s a great "how to" writing with vision far beyond the topic at hand.