More Than Equals, Spencer Perkins
More Than Equals, Spencer Perkins
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More Than Equals
Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel

Author: Spencer Perkins, Chris Rice

Narrator: Beresford Bennett

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 06/29/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Here is living proof that white and black Christians can live together. When Spencer Perkins was sixteen years old, he visited his bloodied and swollen father (pastor John Perkins) in jail. Police had beaten the black activist severely, and Spencer never forgot the moment. He couldn't imagine living in community with a white person after that. But his plans were changed. Chris Rice grew up in very different circumstances, of "Vermont Yankee stock," attending an elite Eastern college and looking forward to a career in law and government. But his plans were changed. Spencer and Chris became not only friends, but yokefellows--partners for more than a decade in the difficult ministry of racial reconciliation. From their own hard-won experience, they show that there is hope for our frightening race problem, that whites and African-Americans can live together in peace.

About The Author

Until his death in 1998, Perkins served the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation and Development. He was an editor of the magazine Urban Family. Chris Rice (DMin, Duke Divinity School) is the Duke Divinity School Senior Fellow for Northeast Asia. He and his wife, Donna, serve with the Mennonite Central Committee as MCC Country Representatives for Northeast Asia. They are based in Chuncheon, South Korea. He previously served as founder and codirector of the Duke Divinity School Center for Reconciliation from 2005 to 2014. He grew up in South Korea, where his parents were Presbyterian missionaries. He also spent many years living and working in Jackson, Mississippi, with Voice of Calvary Ministries. He was managing editor of Urban Family magazine, cofounder of Reconcilers Fellowship and convener of the Issue Group on Reconciliation at the 2004 Lausanne Forum on World Evangelization. He serves as chair of the Lausanne Special Interest Committee on Reconciliation and the leadership team of the Global Network for Reconciliation. He has written for such magazines as Sojourners, Christianity Today and Christian Century, and is author of Grace Matters, coauthor (with Spencer Perkins) of More Than Equals and coauthor (with Emmanuel Katongole) of Reconciling All Things.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on June 03, 2017

When I met Spencer and Chris (twice) in the late 90s, they blew me away. They spoke at a campus where I was a chaplain, and then I brought a group of students to Voice of Calvary Ministries in Jackson, and we spent a couple of hours with Chris and Spencer around the dining room table at Antioch, jus......more

Goodreads review by Tyler on April 30, 2021

For a book written 30 years ago about racial reconciliation, I wish society would have moved forward enough to make this book more out of date than it is. Most everything in it felt relevant to today. I agreed mostly with their take on racial reconciliation and I appreciated the practical advice the......more

Goodreads review by Anna on January 06, 2019

Top five necessary books for those interested in racial reconciliation......more

Goodreads review by Diane on September 14, 2008

Spencer Perkin's father John Perkins spoke at a missions conference at Third Pres several years ago and made quite an impression, so I was attracted when I saw this book by his son Spencer Perkins and Chris Rice, a northern white guy of about the same age. The two men write candidly and sometimes qu......more

Goodreads review by Anita on July 20, 2009

I read this book as part of the College Preparation curriculum that we are using to equip minority students for leadership and excellence on largely homogenous campuses. The book is good overall... I think racial reconciliation is an end to itself and should be done as part because it is right and g......more