Healing Conversations on Race: Four Key Practices from Scripture and Psychology

by Veola Elise Vazquez; Joshua J. Knabb; Charles Courtney Lee-Johnson

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Publisher:

IVP Academic

, 2023

Overview

Christians today can get easily overwhelmed by the plethora of competing, fragmented ideas on race relations and racism. In this book, four authors with advanced degrees in the helping professions present a model for how to have healing conversations on race. The starting place, they argue, must be a coherent and integrated biblical view of the problem of racial disunity, grounded in the grand narrative of Scripture.

This book is the culmination of professional and personal conversations the authors have had as they’ve wrestled with current events, their own stories, and their roles in the healing process. They combine biblical teachings with psychological science to help Christians develop skills to discuss race with people who are racially different. In each chapter, the reader is guided through essential educational information, biblical examples, case studies, activities, and journaling exercises to prepare them for a healing conversation. Using the diversity of literature within psychology, attachment theory, and emotionally focused therapy, the book helps readers gain foundational knowledge, self-awareness, other-awareness, and specific relational skills.

Jesus challenged injustice, welcomed the rejected of society, and engaged in healing conversations with everyone he encountered. The practices in Healing Conversations on Race will help Christians grow in Christlikeness and follow Jesus’ example in cross-racial relationships.

Key Features

• Utilizes the diversity of literature within psychology, attachment theory, and emotionally focused therapy
• Guides readers through educational information, biblical examples, case studies, activities, and journaling exercises
• Combines biblical teachings with psychological science

Contents

• Introduction
• Race Relations: The Problem and the Solution
• Humility: Pursuing Christlikeness
• Empathy: Sharing Stories and Lamenting Together
• Acceptance: Embracing Emotions with Christian Disciplines
• Love: Deepening Relationships Through Christlike Compassion
• Holding a Healing Conversation on Race: Demonstrating Christlike Humility, Empathy, Acceptance, and Love
• Continuing the Journey: Your Story and the Grand Narrative of Scripture

Endorsements

Based on biblical teaching, relationship research, and Christianlove, the authors’ practical but profound model for promoting racialunderstanding has great potential to change the church—andmaybe even the world—one relationship at a time.”

- Eric L. Johnson, Houston Christian University

The authors humbly and transparently share their own storiesand struggles and provide practical skills and steps for engagingin the process of building racial understanding and unityand overcoming racism. Highly recommended!

- Siang-Yang Tan, Fuller Teological Seminayr

Product Details

• Title: Healing Conversations on Race: Four Key Practices from Scripture and Psychology
• Authors: Veola Elise Vazquez, Joshua J. Knabb, Charles Courtney Lee-Johnson, Krystal Shelia Hays
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 226
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Race relations › Religious aspects--Christianity; Reconciliation › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781514003930, 9781514003923, 1514003937, 1514003929
• Resource ID: LLS:HLNGCNVPSYCHLGY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-02-02T19:16:50Z