Subversive Witness, Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Subversive Witness, Dominique DuBois Gilliard
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Subversive Witness
Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege

Author: Dominique DuBois Gilliard, Mark Labberton

Narrator: Percy Bell

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 08/24/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Learn to leverage privilege.Privilege is a social consequence of our unwillingness to reckon with and turn from sin. But properly stewarded, it can help us see and participate in God's inbreaking kingdom. Scripture repeatedly affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have a responsibility to leverage it.Subversive Witness asks us to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways by using biblical examples to reveal the complex nature of privilege and Christians' responsibility in stewarding it well.Dominique DuBois Gilliard highlights several people in the Bible who understood this kingdom call. Through their stories, you will discover how to leverage privilege to:Resist SinStand in Solidarity with the OppressedBirth LiberationCreate Systemic ChangeProclaim the Good NewsGenerate Social TransformationBy embodying Scripture's subversive call to leverage--and at times forsake--privilege, readers will learn to love their neighbors sacrificially, enact systemic change, and grow more Christlike as citizens of God's kingdom.Reflection questions are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

About Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation for the Evangelical Covenant Church. An ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. Gilliard also serves on the board of directors for the Christian Community Development Association.   He is the author of Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice that Restores, which won the 2018 InterVarsity Press Readers' Choice Award and was named one of Outreach Magazine’s 2019 Outreach Resources of the Year - Social Issues / Justice.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad

Gilliard picks up the thread that Bruggemann began weaving more than 40 years ago in Prophetic Imagination. He examines the very real ways that our shared reality has been imagined into existence, and offers a way to use our reality to create a more just and equitable future. His is a voice uniquely......more

This is a must-read piece for our place in history and society today as Christ-followers. Privilege has become a word and concept that has created rifts in our society because of very differing understandings of what it is, who has it, and what that means. Being able to identify privilege and the wa......more