The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward
Ebook
Racism is not about hate and ignorance. It's about greed. And it always has been.
Black Christian historian Malcolm Foley explores this idea in The Anti-Greed Gospel, showing how the desire for power and money--what some call "racial capitalism"--causes violence and exploitation.
Foley reviews the history of racial violence in the United States and connects the killings of modern-day Black Americans to the history of lynching in America. He helps the contemporary church wrestle with the questions racial violence brings up: How can we become communities that show generosity and resist greed? What is the next step in the journey for racial justice?
Readers will walk away with a better understanding of how they can resist greed that exploits others, love their neighbor more completely, and build communities of deep solidarity, anti-violence, and truth-telling.
Contents
Introduction: Breaking the Cycle
Part 1: Our History of Greed, Race, and Racial Capitalism
1. How Greed Gave Birth to Race
2. The Talons and Tendrils of Racial Capitalism
3. Lessons of Despair from Francis Grimké and Atticus Haygood
4. Lessons of Resistance from Ida B. Wells
Part 2: Where Do We Go from Here?
5. Solidarity or Greed?
6. Love or Violence?
7. Truth or Lies?
8. The Creative Kingdom
Epilogue
- Title: The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward
- Author: Malcolm Foley
- Publisher: Brazos Press
- Print Publication Date: 2025
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781493447909, 9781587436307, 1587436302, 1493447904
- Resource ID: LLS:9781493447909
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-27T12:37:05Z
Malcolm Foley (PhD, Baylor University) is a pastor, historian, and speaker who serves as special adviser to the president for equity and campus engagement at Baylor University. He has written for Christianity Today, The Anxious Bench, and Mere Orthodoxy. Foley copastors Mosaic Waco, a multicultural church in Waco, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Desiree.