Marcia W Mount Shoop: 2 books
A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed
Race, Memory, and Eucharist in White-Dominant Churches
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Race and privilege are issues that cry out for new kinds of attention and healing in American society. More specifically, we are being called to surface the dynamics of whiteness especially in contexts where whites have had the most power in America. The church is one of those contexts--particularly...
Touchdowns for Jesus and Other Signs of Apocalypse
Lifting the Veil on Big-Time Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Why do sports matter so much to so many people? And why should we care? Far from being a distraction or a trivial pastime, sports tell us deep truths about ourselves. Big-time sports are a particularly potent mirror for humanity--reflecting both our promising possibilities and our demonic distortions....