McCaulley positions his volume as helping readers navigate a different way between white progressives, black progressives, and white evangelicals. Into the depth of this morass, Esau McCaulley, Assistant Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, launched his timely volume, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope.

Evangelicalism seemed determined to rend itself asunder as parties talked past one another in an attempt to make sense of our cultural moment. Further complicating the situation are the ongoing internecine battles within Evangelicalism as the SBC passed a resolution supporting aspects of Critical Race Theory and other groups moved quickly to produce position papers or statements to define their own positions on a broad array of issues relating to race and racial reconciliation. The difficulty of the issues have only multiplied in the past few months with further cultural flashpoints in various cities and political parties entrenching on either side. The unrest in Ferguson Missouri during 2014 served as a catalyst for needed conversations on the subject of race in the United States.

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