Book
Awakening to Justice:
Faithful Voices from the Abolitionist Past (InterVarsity Press, 2024)
In 2015, the historian Chris Momany helped discover a manuscript that had been forgotten in a storage closet at Adrian College in Michigan. He identified it as the journal of a nineteenth-century Christian abolitionist and missionary, David Ingraham. As Momany and a fellow historian Doug Strong pored over the diary, they realized that studying this document could open new conversations for twenty-first-century Christians to address the reality of racism today. They invited a multiracial team of fourteen scholars to join in, thus launching the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project.
“The appeal of unearthing a buried historical treasure goes a long way, but in this case that’s just the start—because the coauthors want not just to preserve a lost document but also to put into practice the insights about racial justice and collaboration its history suggests,” Boyd says. “The past may be intrinsically interesting, but it’s even better when we can harvest a healing balm, or a bracing tonic, from it. That’s what the Dialogue on Race and Faith Project and Awakening to Justice aim to do.”
- Review from Publisher’s Weekly (view complete review here)