101), a black ministry leader hearing the tearful confession of his white colleague over racial slurs (p.
– The trust built between Gilbreath and the reader makes the negative stories he recounts more powerful: the frustration he faced as a journalist trying to address issues that might alienate CT’s predominantly white readership, a black Christian college student hearing his white classmates cheering the death of Martin Luther King (p.
27), to modern movements such as Promise Keepers, he recognizes that Christians have been active in racial reconciliation. From Gilbreath’s own experience hearing the gospel as a child from a ‘thick, redneckish white man’ (p. – His stories focus not only on the negatives but the positives of race relations within the church. – The biggest selling point of this book is Gilbreath’s uniformly irenic, humble tone, which defuses the defensiveness that often accompanies discussions of race. Gilbreath draws on his own work as a writer for Christianity Today and on a survey of fellow black evangelicals to explain “why we’re so blue” (p. Edward Gilbreath’s Reconciliation Blues is an attempt to voice and explain the fatigue and frustration often experienced by blacks as they integrate majority-white evangelical churches.
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