Book Talk and Discussion, Seattle First Baptist Church, Seattle WA

Co-presented with SEATTLE SPIRITUAL SYNTHESIS at Seattle First Baptist Church. Fifty years ago, Sojourners Founder Jim Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that considered dealing with racism taboo. His participation in the civil rights movement brought him back when he discovered a faith that commands racial justice. “Repentance is much more than saying we are brokenhearted and sorry,” he writes. His new book, America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America (Brazos Press) speaks candidly to Christians—particularly white Christians—about race, inequality, and practical ways to change the culture by addressing police killings of people of color, white privilege, the need for criminal justice reform and for immigration reform. Free admission, no tickets needed. Seattle First Baptist Church is located at 1111 Harvard (at Union) in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.