Weep with Me: How Lament Opens a Door for Racial Reconciliation
By Mark Vroegop, Foreword by Thabiti Anyabwile
Features Prayers of Lament From
Thabiti Anyabwile
Trillia Newbell
Jarvis Williams
John Onwuchekwa
Collin Hansen
Isaac Adams
Danny Akin
Mika Edmondson
Jason Meyer
Garrett Kell
Gospel unity creates racial harmony.
However, Martin Luther King Jr. once said that the most segregated hour in America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning. Equipped with the gospel, the church should be the catalyst for reconciliation, yet it continues to ignore immense pain and division.
In an effort to bridge the canyon of misunderstanding, insensitivity, and hurt, Mark Vroegop writes about the practice of lament, which he defines as “the biblical language of empathy and exile, perseverance and protest.” Encouraging you to “weep with those who weep” (Rom. 12:15), Vroegop invites you to mourn with him over the brokenness that has caused division and to use lament to begin the journey toward a diverse and united church.