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  • Restoring Black Dignity with the Gospel
  • By: Eric Mason
  • Narrated by: Isaiah Young
  • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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By: Eric Mason
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Urban Apologetics examines the legitimate issues that Black communities have with Western Christianity and shows how the gospel of Jesus Christ—rather than popular, socioreligious alternatives—restores our identity.

African Americans have long confronted the challenge of dignity destruction caused by white supremacy. While many have found meaning and restoration of dignity in the black church, others have found it in ethnocentric socioreligious groups and philosophies.

These ideologies have grown and developed deep traction in the black community and beyond. Revisionist history, conspiracy theories, and misinformation about Jesus and Christianity are the order of the day. Many young African Americans are disinterested in Christianity and others are leaving the church in search of what these false religious ideas appear to offer, a spirituality more indigenous to their history and ethnicity.

Edited by Dr. Eric Mason and featuring a top-notch lineup of contributors, Urban Apologetics is the first book focused entirely on cults, religious groups, and ethnocentric ideologies prevalent in the black community. The book is divided into three main parts:

  • Discussions on the unique context for urban apologetics so that you can better understand the cultural arguments against Christianity among the Black community.
  • Detailed information on cults, religious groups, and ethnic identity groups that many urban evangelists encounter—such as the Nation of Islam, Kemetic spirituality, African mysticism, Hebrew Israelites, Black nationalism, and atheism.
  • Specific tools for urban apologetics and community outreach.

Ultimately, Urban Apologetics applies the gospel to black identity to show that Jesus is the only one who can restore it. This is an essential resource to equip those doing the work of ministry and apology in urban communities with the best available information.

©2021 Eric Mason (P)2021 Zondervan

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White guy cheering my black brothers & sisters.

Thanks Pastor Eric for this excellent work. My context and experiences are vastly different, though I live in one of the more multicultural regions of Australia. As a white Australian, I’m very aware of the difficulty my church and congregation has in evangelising, equipping and empowering our brothers and sisters from the many black communities around us - diverse black communities including Australian Indigenous, Torres Strait Islanders, Cook Islanders, Papua New Guineans, Samoans, Fijians, Maoris and various African nationalities. Some are Australian born, some are first generation immigrants, some are internal migrations of people groups, some are refugees.

Some of our local people have experienced incredibly horrible racism, profiling and disrespect. It is hard for a white guy to understand the complexities of inequality in our community - it’s not limited to black vs white. The inherited racism within various black communities towards their own neighbours, darker colours in their own culture (!) and towards some of our Asian brothers and sisters is a regular struggle in our region.

Your wisdom and insight on the needs to speak to the situation we face today - not loosing sight of the past - but no longer ‘wishing it was some other way’ is very important for the Christian church. There is much wisdom to be found in this work, and I love that it’s not read for Audible by the ‘usual white guy’ (sorry David Cochran Heath - love your work, but enjoy hearing non-white voices on audible too! 😂). Worth the time and deep contemplation.

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