Against Nationalism (a reading list), Frederick Douglass, Book Giveaway, MORE - July 3 - ERB Daily Book Morsel
Published: Wed, 07/03/19
July 3, 2019
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,
the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license;
your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants,
brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings,
with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy
— a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages."
― Frederick Douglass,
from his 1852 speech,
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
*** Also Read Douglass's
Scathing Critique
of American Christianity
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*** Against Nationalism:
A Reading List for Christians
Tomorrow is July 4th, the U.S. holiday celebrating the declaration of our independence from Britain.
US President Donald Trump is scheming up a great celebration of nationalism in Washington D.C.,
complete with tanks and headlined by a speech by none other than himself.
Here are a few books that we’ve found helpful as we wrestle with these questions
about faith, politics and nation, and strive to be a faithful community of Christ’s followers.
*** Book Giveaway! Jake Meador –
In Search of the Common Good [3 copies]
We’re very excited about this new book, one of the best new book releases of this week!!!
We’re giving away THREE copies of this excellent new book:
In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World
Jake Meador (Hardback: IVP Books, 2019.)
Rozella Haydée White –
Being With, Not Doing For [Excerpt]
Being With, Not Doing For. An Excerpt from
Love Big: The Power of Revolutionary Relationships to Heal the World
by Rozella Haydée White (Paperback: Fortress Press, 2019)
In Case You Missed It...
*** Amazon Monthly Kindle Ebook Sale! [July 2019]
Amazon recently released their monthly ebook sale for July 2019…
(Most ebooks in this sale are $3.99 or less!)
Here are 15 of the Very Best Deals for Christian Readers from this sale…
Wendell Berry, Thomas Merton, Shannan Martin, Lauren Groff, C.S. Lewis, MORE
New Book Releases: Week of 1 July 2019
Here are a few new book releases from this week that are worth checking out:
Scot McKnight, Ellen Davis, Jake Meador, MORE
Here's to energizing reading today!
Chris Smith
Editor, The Englewood Review of Books