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Retired pastor’s book finds Methodist history ‘strangely lukewarm’ on confronting racism
If United Methodists are to fulfill the church's current mission to dismantle racism, then its white members must come to terms with the denomination's racist history, contends author John Elford. Elford's conviction spurred him to write Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm: The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy. Now he hopes the...
Cynthia Astle