Revolution of Values

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove starts this book by contextualizing what has been happening in the U.S.A. for the last five decades, namely, that “cultural concerns of conservative white Christians” (p. 1) have captured the nation’s overall view of politics and morality. Wilson-Hartgrove aims his deeply spiritual and sometimes autobiographical narrative at a Christian audience. He asks us, as his readers, to consider an alternative way to read and interpret the Bible that is different from that of the Religious Right as we reconsider our values as a nation. He asks us to consider a revolution of values by utilizing the biblical texts as a lens that can be used in informing social policy and considering social justice. Further, he unabashedly and with ease infuses some of those Christian biblical verses throughout this book as evidence to coincide with the examples he uses. As he says, “So this is not only a book...

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