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Untangling Critical Race Theory

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This is a very comprehensive and updated book about critical race theory and how we understand about it. Hopefully, you will get this book, read it, and broaden your spectrum of understanding. Thank you so much, Ed Uszynsky for this book!

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Thank you #netgalley and IVP for the ARC. I very much appreciated reading this book. Although I mostly read fiction, when there is a topic I am passionate about I will pick up a nonfiction read. They are more difficult, and sometimes they can come across as preachy. My biggest criticism with nonfiction is that, the people that need to read the book are the least likely to pick it up. I think that is the primary reason why I appreciated this book. The author is a white conservative, evangelical Christian, writing for other white conservative evangelical Christians. He takes an approach to examining the questions of critical race theory without all of the intellectual laziness that we typically see. I learned so much about what critical theory is, its Marxist roots, and a less volatile way of considering someone else’s point of view. This book is highly biblical, and completely understands that racism is systemic and sinful. Racism is satanic. Unfortunately, there are some terms that have made people extremely defensive and stop listening. we shouldn’t be quick to not examine someone else’s point of view, this is the least like Christ we could be. This author approaches the subject with eschatological humility. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be choosing this book as one of my top 10 for the year. That is really saying something, because as of May 3, I have read 193 books this year. I hope that 10 copies of this book will be in every church in America. And I hope the most polarizing people from both the far left in the far right will read it. It truly challenges us to thoughtfully approach what makes other people feel the way that they do. Since I got an advanced reading copy of this book, I’m not allowed to quote it in the review. But once this book is published, I will include my favorite quotes in this review. Because I highlighted some thing on almost every other page.

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