Healing Our Collective Wound: Racial Literacy and the Church - Paperback

by Joni Schwartz-Chaney (Author), James Jr. Haywood Rolling (Foreword by)

The church in the United States is in transition, polarization, even woundedness. In part this has to do with changing demographics, norms, and having a racial history we have never fully dealt with. The United States needs healing from its collective and historic wound of racism but, with many Americans being racially illiterate, whether willfully or in denial, the wound continues to fester. The Christian church in all its varieties is in special need of this healing and through Christ is positioned to be the balm this country so desperately needs. Healing Our Collective Wound: Racial Literacy and the Church examines our collective racial woundedness and illiteracy providing hope for healing and suggesting a way forward through the church.

Author Biography

Joni Schwartz-Chaney is Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York--LaGuardia Community College and at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice graduate program. A critical researcher and social activist scholar, she is the author of Critical Faith: What It Is, What It Isn't, & Why It Matters (2024); Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience (2021); and Learning to Disclose: A Journey of Transracial Adoption (2020).