The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christ..., Carter Heyward
The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christ..., Carter Heyward
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The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism
A Call to Action

Author: Carter Heyward

Narrator: Rosemary Benson

Unabridged: 13 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/18/2023

Synopsis

Hear the call to overcome today's culture of hate and bring healing and hope into our life together. While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrific acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly hear God's message of peace and love.

Heyward shows how American Christians have played a major role in building and securing structures of injustice in American life. Rising tides of white supremacy, threats to women's reproductive freedoms and to basic human rights for gender and sexual minorities, the widening divide between rich and poor, and increasing natural disasters and the extinction of Earth's species—all point to a world crying out for God's wisdom.

Followers of Jesus must first call out these ingrained and sinful attitudes for what they are, acknowledging what the culture of white Christian nationalism is doing to our country and our world, and commit ourselves ever more fully to generating justice-love, whoever and wherever we are.

About Carter Heyward

Carter Heyward is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States. In 1974, she was one of the Philadelphia Eleven, eleven women whose ordinations eventually paved the way for the recognition of women as priests in the Episcopal Church in 1976. Heyward is the author of some eleven books and has edited/contributed to a further three. Her books include Tears of Christopena: Mystical Musings on Grief, Evil, and Godding and She Flies On: A White Christian Debutante Wakes Up. She lives the North Carolina mountains south of Asheville.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on March 16, 2023

Heyward presents a straightforward progressive Christian critique of White Christian Nationalism (WCN). In the first two sections of the book, using a lot of personal reflections, she declares the roots and current actions of those who aspire to see the American Experiment end with a White Christian......more

Goodreads review by Marta on January 22, 2023

From a position of strong faith and deep engagement, Carter Heyword writes an eloquent list of the failings of Christianity entwined with governance in the United States today. Here are the sins: lust for omnipotence, entitlement, white supremacy, misogyny, capitalist spirituality, domination of ear......more

Goodreads review by Mike on October 17, 2022

Carter Heyward is a theologian and retired Episcopal priest who live here in Brevard; indeed, I know a good many of the folks she mentions in her Acknowledgments. The January 6 insurrection horrified and outraged her (as it did me) and spurred her to write this book which is clearly the crystallizati......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 07, 2024

Regardless of your religious leanings, this book is a tremendous look at our politics, our government and who we, as Americans, are. Hayward, one of the first female Episcopal priests (I am married to an Episcopal priest) and has taught in seminary and worked in parishes. She doesn't hold back in he......more

Goodreads review by David on December 30, 2022

I am white and Christian, but white Christian nationalism is idolatry, pure and simple. It's just another way of the few gaining power over the many. It's about the wolf of control dressed up as the lamb of religion. Don't fall for this heresy. Out of her long experience as a professor of systematic......more

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