Church group prepares to delve into Rev. Wallis’ book on racism
‘America’s Original Sin’ Is Topic of Series At First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn
“Overcoming racism is more than an issue or a cause — it is also a story, which can be part of each of our stories, too. The story about race that was embedded into America at the founding of our nation was a lie; it is time to change that story and discover a new one.”
So writes the Rev. Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners and a best-selling author. The words above are part of the first paragraph of his book “America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege and the Bridge to a New America,” which was published earlier this year.
Wallis, who is an in-demand teacher, preacher and activist, had just finished the book when, on June 17, 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof took a gun and murdered the nine Bible study participants place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. (This tragedy is the subject of the preface that he wrote later.)