Hear the call to overcome today's conservative rhetoric of hate and bring virtue back to Christian living... While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrible acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly hear God's message of peace and love. This book attempts to show ways in which, through our highly privatized theologies and personal spiritualities, we American Christians have played a major role in building and securing structures of injustice in American life. Rising tides of white supremacy, threats to women's reproductive freedoms and to basic human rights for gender and sexual minorities, the widening divide between rich and poor, and increasing natural disasters and the extinction of Earth's species all point to a world crying out for God's wisdom. To move forward as followers of Jesus, we must first call out these ingrained cultural attitudes for what they are-the seven deadly sins of white Christian nationalism. We must commit ourselves to building a more perfect union in small personal ways and in large public acknowledgment of what the culture of white Christian nationalism is doing to our country and world.
Carter Heyward is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. In 1974, she was one of the Philadelphia Eleven, eleven women whose ordinations eventually paved the way for the recognition of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in 1976. Heyward is the author of some eleven books and has edited / contributed to a further three. Her most recent books are Tears of Christopena: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding and SheFlies On: A White Christian Debutante Wakes Up. She lives the North Carolina mountains south of Asheville.
Acknowledgments Preface Part I: In the Beginning Chapter 1: Why This Book? Chapter 2: What is White Christian Nationalism? Part II: The Seven Deadly Sins Chapter 3: Sin as Our Collective Problem Chapter 4: The First Sin: The Lust for Omnipotence Chapter 5: The Second Sin: Entitlement Chapter 6: The Third Sin: White Supremacy Chapter 7: The Fourth Sin: Misogyny Chapter 8: The Fifth Sin: Capitalist Spirituality Chapter 9: The Sixth Sin: Domination of the Earth and Its Creatures Chapter 10: The Seventh Sin: Violence Part III: A Call to Action Chapter 11: Questions and Call Chapter 12: The First Call: Into Sharing Power-With One Another Chapter 13: The Second Call: Into Humility Chapter 14: The Third Call: Into the Blackness of God Chapter 15: The Fourth Call: Into Empowering Women, Celebrating Sexuality, and Affirming Gender Diversity Chapter 16: The Fifth Call: Transforming Capitalism Chapter 17: The Sixth Call: Belonging with Earth and Animals Chapter 18: The Seventh Call: To Break the Spiral of Violence Resources and Bibliography
Hear the call to overcome today's conservative rhetoric of hate and bring virtue back to Christian living... Bewildered by other Christians' violent and hateful actions? You are not alone and you are not powerless. Since when did power, profit, and politics replace faith, hope, and love as Christianity's motto?
