While We Run This Race: Confronting the Power of Racism in a Southern Church

By Nibs Stroupe

In this challenging, ultimately hopeful book, Nibs Stroupe, the white pastor of multi-cultural Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia, grapples with this question: why, so long after the Civil Rights movement has become part of American history, does racism still pervade society? Race, writes Stroupe, represents a social and political chasm that continues to divide and entrap all Americans. He steadfastly maintains that acknowledging the power of the system of race throughout society - in our schools, courts, prisons, and housing - is the necessary first step to dismantling it. Stroupe convinces us that although racism is powerful, it is not inexorable. It can be overcome. Adding her voice is Inez Fleming, a black elder at Oakhurst, who tells the story of tears and laughter within the congregation as blacks and whites struggle together, creating an extraordinary church family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570750009
• ISBN13: 9781570750007
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.5"