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Holding Up Your Corner: Talking About Race in Your Community, equips pastors to respond with confidence when crises occur, lower their own inhibitions about addressing this topic, and reclaim their authority as prophetic witnesses and leaders in order to transform their communities Pastors and other church leaders see, to varying degrees, racially rooted injustice in their communities. Most of them understand an imperative, as part of their calling from God, to lead their congregations to address and reverse this injustice. For instance, preachers want to be preaching prophetically on this topic. But the problems seem irreversible, intractable, overwhelming, and pastors often feel their individual efforts will be futile. Additionally, they realize that there is a lot of risk involved, including the possibility that their actions may offend and even push some members away from the church. They do not know what to do or how to begin. And so, even during times of crisis, pastors and other church leaders typically do less than they know they could and should. This book provides practical, foundational guidance, showing pastors how to live into their calling to address injustice, and how to lead others to do the same. Holding Up Your Corner prompts readers to observe, identify and name the complex causes of violence and hatred in the reader and rsquo;s particular community, including racial prejudice, entrenched poverty and exploitation, segregation, the loss of local education and employment, the ravages of addiction, and so on. The book walks the church leader through a self-directed process of determining what role to play in the leader and rsquo;s particular location. Readers will learn to use testimony and other narrative devices, proclamation, guided group conversations, and other tactics in order to achieve the following: 1. and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;Open eyes to the realities in the reader and rsquo;s community and mdash;where God and rsquo;s reign/kingdom is not yet overcoming selfishness, injustice, inequality, or the forces of evil. 2. and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;Own the calling and amp; responsibility we have as Christians, and learn how to advocate hope for God and rsquo;s kingdom in the reader and rsquo;s community. 3. and nbsp; and nbsp; and nbsp;Organize interventions and activate mission teams to address the specific injustices in the reader and rsquo;s community.