It is ok to say “ouch” when you are in pain. I want to raise you to know that speaking up is not an act of anger or aggression no matter the color of your skin, the timbre of your voice, or your gender. Listen, for example, to Holmes teach her son about the ministry of reconciliation, and what that looks like for a black man: She loves the church deeply and so she can challenge the church, showing what it looks like to love across racial and cultural lines. Jesus and His Word always have pre-eminence in her teaching, and yet she carefully demonstrates the racist history behind the notion of “just preach the gospel,” a stance that failed black believers miserably across America for decades. We would do well to listen and learn.Īs an African American sister in Christ, Jasmine Holmes knows well the challenges facing her sons in a country where a black man might be shot on his afternoon run. Sharing a series of letters written to her oldest boy when he was two years old, Holmes invites her readers to eavesdrop on conversations she will have with her sons as they grow up. A gifted writer, Holmes is also a middle-school humanities teacher in Mississippi. Holmes, daughter of well- known Baptist preacher Voddie Baucham, is wife to Phillip Holmes and mother to two sons, Wynn and Langston. Written as “a testament of a mother’s love for her son and of a sister’s love for the body of Christ,” Mother to Son: Letters to a Black Boy on Identity and Hope is a book the church needs now.
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