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Named One of Fifteen Important Theology Books of 2022, Englewood Review of BooksThis book demonstrates how two overlooked ministry models--base ecclesial communities of the Global South in the late twentieth century and hush harbors of the US antebellum South--offer proven strategies for the twenty-first-century church and contemporary social movements. These ministry models provide insight into the creation and sustenance of vital Christian community, particularly for those seeking indigenous culturally-rooted models, and show how to integrate vibrant Christ-centered faith and mission with world-changing social justice and political action. The book includes on-the-ground stories from multiethnic communities, a foreword by Robert Chao Romero, and an afterword by Willie James Jennings.

Named One of Fifteen Important Theology Books of 2022, Englewood Review of BooksThis book demonstrates how two overlooked ministry models--base ecclesial communities of the Global South in the late twentieth century and hush harbors of the US antebellum South--offer proven strategies for the twenty-first-century church and contemporary social movements. These ministry models provide insight into the creation and sustenance of vital Christian community, particularly for those seeking indigenous culturally-rooted models, and show how to integrate vibrant Christ-centered faith and mission with world-changing social justice and political action. The book includes on-the-ground stories from multiethnic communities, a foreword by Robert Chao Romero, and an afterword by Willie James Jennings.

While the North American church grapples with an eroding position of privilege in society, there is a liberating vision of church from the margins. This manifesto defines eight marks of liberating churches that were identified through research of antebellum hush harbors. Hush harbors were the covert gatherings of enslaved Africans to worship and organize for change free from the surveillance of plantation Christianity. Liberating Church explores how the marks of antebellum hush harbors are being lived out now in several faith communities. This book offers a guide for anyone who wants to embrace innovative models for building spaces of faith and activism with structural critique and spiritual power.

ContentsLetter from EditorsSECTION I: INDIGENOUS LEADERSHIP AND THE SCRIPTURESCultivating Oaks of Righteousness: Restoration and Mission in Isaiah 61Daniel R. CarrollNow is the Time: Reflections on Isaiah 61:1-4Marshall HatchJesus's Model for Us in Luke 4:15-30 and Luke's GospelCraig KeenerIsaiah, Luke, and Jesus on the CornerPatty Prasada-RaoSECTION II: CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIPRethinking Incarnational Ministry Soong-Chan RahOn Preparing Leadership for a Rapidly Changing Inter-Cultural Urban WorldJuan Francisco MartinezCultivating Autochthonous Leadership: Why Ministry in Under-Resourced Communities Should be Led from Within Vince BantuSECTION III: HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ANALYSYS The Cultivation of Racial Hierarchy in Early New Orleans during French, Spanish, and British Colonial RuleMae Elise CannonA People's History: A Liturgical Call to Remembrance Dominque GilliardTRIBUTETribute to Richard Twiss Noel CastellenosMark CharlesAndrea SmithBOOK REVIEWSLinking Arms, Linking Lives: How Urban-Suburban Partnership Can Transform Communities by Ronald J. Sider, John M. Perkins, Wayne L. Gordon, and F. Albert TizonReviewed by Gary VanderPolThe New Jim Crow, by Michelle AlexanderReviewed by Michael McBride