Oneness Embraced
Reconciliation, the Kingdom, and How We are Stronger Together

The point of this book is that "oneness is the preeminent vehicle through which God displays not only His power and His presence, but also His glory." Tony Evans devotes the first four chapters to the problem of not having oneness (which felt like four chapters of introduction, following a formal int......more

Overall, I appreciated and grew and learned from this book even though I didn’t agree with all of it. Here’s some things I really appreciated: - Dr. Evans’ tone. He made a number of strong statements about racial challenges, but he managed to convey everything in a way that came across as constructiv......more

This is a good book in the current cultural climate we are living in. Dr. Evans presents the issues at hand with the idea of Biblical oneness. I would not agree with every place he lands, but once again I have never walked in his shoes as a black man in America. The strongest part of this book comes......more

I picked up this book through the recommendation of a friend in the aftermath of the summer of 2020's shootings and subsequent riots in the "Black Lives Matter" era. I'm quite happy to have read it. Dr. Tony Evans, a long-time black pastor in Dallas, was trained in mainstream 20th-century evangelical......more

This book took me a long time to get through— not because of the length, but because I had to frequently pause and process what I had read. Rather than take a political stance, Dr Evans took a biblical stance, as is his precedence. He didn’t adopt a view that we are in an age of ‘post racism’, where......more